{"title":"Book Reviews: PIETY AND POLITICS: THE DYNAMICS OF ROYAL AUTHORITY IN HOMERIC GREECE, BIBLICAL ISRAEL, AND OLD BABYLONIAN MESOPOTAMIA. By Dale Launderville. Grand Rapids, MI/ Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003. Pp. xvii + 407. Cloth, $75.00","authors":"R. Gnuse","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126527171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postmodernism and the Interpretation of Biblical Texts for Behavior","authors":"John O’Grady","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300303","url":null,"abstract":"Postmodernism has many meanings and many names. Whatever it actually means depends on different cultures and different individuals. That explains enough the current American situation. as well as the general condition in developed countries. How much continuity remains from the past? How much discontinuity will characterize the future? How does this affect the interpretaiton of biblical texts from different cultures and different time periods? Can biblical scholars and religious leaders ever be clever enough to be aware of, and respond to, the lived existence of ordinary believers? This article offes no defintite answers—only attempts to orchestrate the problems. Roland Murphy taught me long ago to \"pay attention to your audience.\" As a scholar he always listened to what ordinary believers had to say and responded accordingly. His senstivity to the everyday disciples of Jesus living their lives of faith today, made him a noble priest first and then a noble scholar.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124005037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews: Beatrice Bruteau, editor. JESUS THROUGH JEWISH EYES: RABBIS AND SCHOLARS ENGAGE AN ANCIENT BROTHER IN A NEW CONVERSATION. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001. Pp. xvi + 191. Paper, $19.95","authors":"John F. Craghan","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126584259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., Feminist Mentor: Rightly Did the Maidens Love Him","authors":"Carole R. Fontaine","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"467 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124375525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Season for Thanks Giving","authors":"D. Bossman","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125452677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roland Murphy, The Pontifical Biblical Commission, Jews, and the Bible","authors":"A. Levine","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300304","url":null,"abstract":"Roland Murphy's understanding of the Old Testament both on its own terms and as interpreted throughout the history of the Church provides a helpful complement to the Pontifical Biblical Institute's THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR SACRED SCRIPTURES IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE. This article expands on Murphy's own critique of the document (BTB 32.3 [2002]: 145-49) in its analysis of seven issues: contextual understanding, historical criticism, use of the Old Testament to interpret the New, Jewish interpretation, comparing Testaments, Formative Judaism, and the Shoah. It concludes that Murphy's ways of understanding the Old Testament provide helpful guides for correcting and improving the PBC document.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115384473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Book of Isaiah—Theses and Hypotheses","authors":"J. C. Mccann","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300302","url":null,"abstract":"The book of Isaiah is a complex unity that developed from a long redactional process, and this complex unity is the key to a biblical-theological appropriation of the book. Following Isaiah's \"directions of meaning\" will lead contemporary readers to discern a God who wills world-encompassing justice, righteousness, and peace, and who invites people to be agents of God's purposes in shaping the kind of future that God wills.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114302060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews: William G. Dever, WHO WERE THE EARLY ISRAELITES AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? Grand Rapids: MI, 2003. Pp. xi + 257. $25.00","authors":"Ralph K. Hawkins","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124676958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Is Theology \"Biblical\"?—Some Reflections","authors":"R. Murphy","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300104","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast to the ongoing hermeneutical discussions of \"biblical theology,\" this article looks at some theological studies in order to find out how \"biblical\" theology can be. They are not representative, but merely chosen to gauge the flow. Obviously the role of Scripture as norma normans, or as the \"soul of theology,\" is expressed in quite different ways. The perspectives of exegetes and of dogmatic theologians produce a wide variety in theological writings. The examples also challenge readers to examine their own use of Scripture, whatever be the level of discourse, academic or pastoral.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123943947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}