Renewing Tradition

by Hamilton, Mark W.; Olbricht, Thomas H.; Peterson, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9781597528283
• ISBN10: 1597528285
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-10
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

We offer this collection as a token of our affection and admiration of our friend and colleague James Weldon Thompson. . . . His studies of the letter to the Hebrews and of Paul in their intellectual contexts (especially Middle Platonism) have contributed significantly to the ongoing quest for placing the New Testament in its socio-intellectual setting. Although his publications in this area date back more than thirty years, his best work is occurring now, and we may anticipate path-breaking contributions ahead. His more recent work on preaching and pastoral care in Paul both situate the Apostle in his own world and, just as importantly, offer correctives of some contemporary ministerial practices and invitations for improvements. Since 1993 Thompson has served as the editor of 'Restoration Quarterly,' a significant venue for research in biblical studies, church history (especially of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement), and contemporary theology. His more popular works make available to a lay audience thoughtful, well-informed, and spiritually rewarding interpretations of much of the New Testament. His achievements, however, do not end at the printing press. For more than thirty years, he has taught ministers and others at the Institute for Christian Studies (now Austin Graduate School of Theology) and Abilene Christian University. Students of the past and the present speak of him as a prepared, stimulating, and creative teacher unafraid of experimentation for a new generation of learners. At both institutions he also served as an administrator, first as President of ICS and then as Associate Dean of ACU's Graduate School of Theology. His colleagues respect his ability to enlist them for work as needed and otherwise to get out of their way, certainly a too rare set of skills in university administrators! --from the Preface

Table of Contents

List of Contributers	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Traditions in Context
Praising God with "One Mouth"/"One Voice"	p. 3
Early Christian Missionary Practice and Pagan Reaction: 1 Peter and Domestic Violence against Slaves and Wives	p. 24
The Virtus Feminarum in 1 Timothy 2:9-15	p. 45
Mark and the Inclusion of the Gentiles	p. 66
Traditions in Texts
The Rhetoric of Adventure: Deuteronomy 1:19-46 and Gilgamesh III	p. 83
Hebrew Poetics and Biblical Interpretation: Insights from Psalm 120	p. 104
The Faith (Faithfulness) of Jesus in Hebrews	p. 116
Christ our Pasch: Shaping Christian Identity in Corinth	p. 133
The First Theologian: The Originality of Philo of Alexandria	p. 145
Rhetorical Strategy in Isaiah 1-5	p. 163
Seeing the Faith as Paul Sees It	p. 181
Renewing Contexts
Hebrews and Philosophy: A Question of Intersection	p. 195
A Reluctant Bride: Finding a Life for Damaris of Athens (Acts 17:34)	p. 207
Looking Through the Fish-Eye Lens: Panoramic Exegesis for Preaching	p. 236
Language and the Reshaping of Life: Speech-Act Theory and the Use of the Bible as Scripture	p. 249
The Reformation and Believer's Baptism: Erasmus and the Anabaptists on the Great Commission	p. 264
Publications of James W. Thompson	p. 283
Scripture Index	p. 289
Index of Other Ancient Literature	p. 299
Modern Author Index	p. 311
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