How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible
Description
How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible: Seven Hermeneutical Choices for the Old and New Testaments by Gary Edward Schnittjer and Matthew S. Harmon is an essential resource aimed at teaching a hermeneutic for understanding the Bible's use of the Bible. Intended for students of both testaments, the book's innovative approach demonstrates how the Old Testament use of Scripture provides resources for the New Testament authors' use of Scripture. The authors provide students with a clear approach to handling the Bible's use of itself through seven key hermeneutical choices organized into individual chapters. Each chapter introduces a hermeneutical choice and then provides several examples of the Old Testament use of Old Testament and the New Testament use of Old Testament. The plentiful examples model for students the need to ground hermeneutics in biblical evidence and provide insight into understanding why the Bible's use of the Bible is important.
About the Authors
Gary Edward Schnittjer (PhD, Dallas Theological Seminary) is distinguished professor of Old Testament in the School of Divinity at Cairn University. He is the author of the award-winning book Old Testament Use of Old Testament, Torah Story, now in its second edition, and Old Testament Narrative Books: The Israel Story.
Table of Contents
1 Sequestered versus Connected
2. Adjusting Meaning and/or Adjusting Context versus Advancement of Revelation
3. Detecting Allusions as Art versus Science
4. Horizontal Context versus Vertical Context
5. Biblical versus Extrabiblical Relationships
6. Backward-Looking versus Forward-Looking Typological Patterns
7. Historical Exegesis versus Historical and Prosopological Exegesis
Praise for How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible
“This is an instructional book to teach students how to interpret the use of the OT in the OT and the use of the OT in NT. . . . The two need to be put together. . . . I am happy to recommend this book.”
—G. K. Beale, professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas
“This was, for me, an eye-opening examination of the hermeneutical choices every student must make to understand the Bible’s use of the Bible.”
—Kevin J. Vanhoozer, research professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“In the crowded field of books on the NT use of the OT, this volume . . . stands out by extending the issue to include the OT use of the OT.”
—Douglas Moo, professor of Biblical Studies, Emeritus, Wheaton College
“Can a textbook also advance scholarship? This one does. . . . I expect to return to this volume again and again.”
—Carmen Joy Imes, associate professor of Old Testament, Talbot School of Theology, and author of Bearing Yhwh’s Name at Sinai
“I heartily recommend it as a text . . . as an invaluable guide for those trying to navigate this sometimes bewildering field of study.”
—Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., chair and senior professor, Old Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary
“[T]his [is an] invaluable guide to . . . the subtleties of the progressive revelation of scripture in its plain sense, a scripture that is God-given and God-inspired.”
—Katharine Dell, professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology, University of Cambridge, UK
“They have done it again— This book is a must-have for pastors and Bible students.”
—L. Michael Morales, professor of Biblical Studies, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
“They don’t try to force one system but allow the text to drive their conclusions. This . . . will be a help to pastors, students, and scholars for many years to come.”
—Patrick Schreiner, associate professor of New Testament and biblical theology, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Filled with model examples, study aids, discussion questions, and an expansive glossary, this work is ideal as a course text.”
—Sean Adams, professor of New Testament and Ancient Culture at the University of Glasgow