By the eve of the Civil War, however, people on both sides of the conflict confronted the limitations of the
Old Testament as a source for solutions to an emergent American impasse.
Nugent thus draws out Yoder's theology via a "canonical-directional" approach (10), placing comments on various portions of the
Old Testament so that they come together in a "discernible trajectory .
This brings us to the radical innovation in the
Old Testament.
Part I, entitled "From Theology to History," charts the history of the historical-critical paradigm in European and North American study of the
Old Testament over the past two centuries.
She demonstrates that at times the empire language of the
Old Testament text is reversed in light of the gospel (Eph.
Jesus, being a Jew and respecting the Law of the Jews, the Laws of Moses, the Torah (Hebrew), mentioned in the
Old Testament, there did not seem to be any reason to mention the New Testament.
But I kind of got that from the clip where Fischer talks about how
Old Testament believers would have put Harry Potter to death.
Grant, Oxford 1970) pungently upholds Christian doctrine and morality against pagan myths and emperor-worship, drawing heavily on the
Old Testament and combining allegorical interpretation of Genesis with secular chronography proving the priority of Moses and the Prophets.
Scholarly discussion of
Old Testament theology is greatly served by Fortress Press's decision to include these republished essays by the late Walther Zimmerli (1907-1984) in the Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies series.
In so doing, Wright seems often more to be constructing an apologetic defense of the
Old Testament (for Christians) than really facing its indifference to our modern moral sensibilities.
The
Old Testament God drowns all the children of the world in Noah's flood, incinerates all the children of Sodom and Gomorrah, and orders his followers to kill all living things in their conquest of Jericho.
John Coleman's letter, for example, is undoubtedly heartfelt in its compassion, but nevertheless offensive to Jews and Judaism with its statement about "outmoded attitudes of the
Old Testament.
