Ancient Wisdom Today » Darrell Bock 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 The Seed: Four Theologians’ Quest to Understand Paul http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/13/the-seed-four-theologians-quest-to-understand-paul/ http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/13/the-seed-four-theologians-quest-to-understand-paul/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:57:03 +0000 Maer http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/?p=45 One of the passages used to illustrate the NT use of the OT in Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament was Galatians 3 concerning Paul’s use of the word “seed.” I was especially interested in this passage because I remember being quite impressed with N. T. Wright’s treatment of it in The Climax of the Covenant a few years ago. In this post, I would like to do three things: 1) summarize each author’s understanding of this passage; 2) bring N. T. Wright into the conversation and explain, in broad strokes, his exegesis; and 3) ask which of the three views best reflects N. T. Wright’s approach.

Since Peter Enns chose the “seed” passage as one of his examples and elaborated on it in his essay, we get a fuller picture of Enns’ approach related to this particular issue. Kaiser and Bock merely responded to Enns so there will be some inevitable reading between the lines. But since I am only interested in the approach and not a full exegesis of the text, I believe each position can be fairly outlined (at least I will attempt to do that).

The Passage

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]]> http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/13/the-seed-four-theologians-quest-to-understand-paul/feed/ 3 Three Views on the NT Use of the OT http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/03/three-views-on-the-nt-use-of-the-ot/ http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/03/three-views-on-the-nt-use-of-the-ot/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:20:38 +0000 Maer http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/?p=44 Berding, Kenneth, Stanley N. Gundry and Jonathan Lunde, eds. Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2007.

Issues surrounding the NT use of the OT have been of great interest to me for a long time, so it was with equally great delight that I read yet another contribution to this complicated and yet fascinating field of study.

The structure of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament is very simple. It contains an introduction, closing remarks by one of the editors and three essays followed by a response by the two other opposing views. Although the length of the essays were adequate, I wish more space had been given for the responses.

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