Ancient Wisdom Today » Canonical Criticism http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org Ancient Wisdom Today: seeking to understand the past to make sense of the present Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Brevard Childs’ Intro to the OT http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/10/23/brevard-childs-intro-to-the-ot/ http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/10/23/brevard-childs-intro-to-the-ot/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:45:21 +0000 Maer http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/?p=43 I am working my way through Brevard Childs’ Introduction to the OT as Scripture (Fortress Press, 1979). The more I read it, the more I like his approach. Now I want to see how his methodology is going to play out in practice.

His canonical approach does raise some issues, and I was pleasantly surprised that every time I had a question, he either answered it or at least gave me enough to think about. One of the questions I had was about textual criticism since I wanted to know when we would start to talk about a “canon” of the OT when things seemed to be so fluid in the first century. Not only that, why should I even limit myself to the first century? What is the role of the canonical shape of scriptures throughout its entire history?

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