Subject Index
Academy of the Hebrew Language 232
allegory. See typology
“All People That on Earth Do Dwell” 42
Altizer, Thomas J. J. 5n3
American civil religion 147, 189n10
American Sign Language (ASL) 221
Anglicanism 182–83
anti-Semitism 123, 124, 127, 129, 228n41
Apocrypha 38, 180n73, 181–83, 184
Apostles’ Creed 238
atheism 22, 24, 98n62, 101, 102
Avalos, Hector 101, 127n114, 187n5
Babel-Bibel controversy 126–27
Barth, Karl 14, 74–75, 125, 222n16
Beal, Timothy 154, 189n10, 229nn45–46
Ben-Shahar, Tal 141
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer 163–64
Bergen, Doris L. 235n63
Berger, Peter 9
Bernard of Clairvaux 37
Best Sermons series 28–38, 48, 50
Bible. See also New Testament; Old Testament
authority 180–81
biblical scholarship 188–89, 191, 192–94
biblical worldview 11
bothness 226–29
canon 32, 33, 46, 47, 107, 112, 120n76, 122, 179–80, 224, 226, 231
children’s 236n67
and church 120
confession 74–75
creole 143, 145–47, 151, 167, 189–90, 192, 229
dying 18, 75, 76, 151, 154, 183
historical development 85
information 74
interpretation 8, 55, 88–90, 92–94, 99
Judaism 166
knowledge 23–24, 38, 48, 128, 226
language
biblical scholarship 191
full 108, 119, 131, 138, 143–45, 150, 154, 185, 190, 211, 237, 239–40
Old Testament 166
preservation 192
resistance 178
in worship 57
memory 55–56
morality 99
New Testament only 183–84, 224
Old Testament 223
pidgin 74, 75, 108–10, 112, 144, 145–47, 151, 154, 167, 189–90, 192, 229
promise-fulfillment 227–28
study 189–90
unity 222–26
Big Picture Story Bible 230
Blackman, E. C. 105, 109n31, 118, 228n40
Bly, Robert 8n12
Book of Common Prayer 149, 182
Borgen, Doris L. 128
Bosworth, Fred F. 146n44
Bowler, Kate 143–45, 146, 147, 149n57, 150–51
Boyd, Brian 234n59
Brueggemann, Walter 7, 37, 178, 200, 225
Burns, Robert 111
Butler, G. Paul 29
Carroll, Robert P. 101
Chapman, Stephen B. 223n20
Childs, Brevard S. 223n20
Chomsky, Noam 168
Christianity. See also New Testament; Old Testament
and New Testament 128, 224, 229
North America 19–23
and Old Testament 16n43, 51, 78, 105, 124, 125, 128, 166, 184n86, 229
preaching 32
religious literacy 22–26
Clabeaux, John J. 108
colonization 152
Common Lectionary 52. See also lectionary; Revised Common Lectionary
conquest tradition 94–95
contemporary Christian music 47–48
Covenant Bible Study 194n24
Cox, James W. 29
Craigo-Snell, Shannon 237
Crystal, David 174
Darwin, Charles 91
David, King 118
Davis, Ellen F. 5n2
Dawkins, Richard 84–101, 106, 115, 118
Dead Sea Scrolls 182n81
Decalogue. See Ten Commandments
Delitzsch, Friedrich 126–27, 128
Deuteronomic History 203
Deuteronomy, book of 92, 186, 194–96, 197–98, 199–202, 203–4, 205–9, 211, 213, 216, 231, 232–34, 238
diagnosis 15
Disciple Bible Study 194n24
Dollar, Creflo 153
Donne, John 227
Eagleton, Terry 87n17, 98, 150
Easter Sunday 50
Eastern Orthodoxy 182
Ecclesiastes, book of 36, 140, 188
Ehrman, Bart 96n55
Eller, Vernard 75n54
Englemann, Siegfried 169
Enns, Peter 8
Ephraem 112
Epistle of Barnabas, The 125
epistles 49
Erasmus 183
Euthymius Zigabenus 96
Evans, Ernest 112n38
Every Day a Friday 148
Exodus, book of 33
exodus tradition 94
Feasting on the Word series 54
figural reading. See typology
Frankfort, Harry G. 80n73
Geertz, Clifford 12n29
Gethsemane 142
Gideons 184
Glinert, Lewis 163
globalization 147–48
gnosticism 109n29
God
agency 152–53
in Bible 103
bothness 230
goodness 114–15
happiology 133–34
love 226n32
of New Testament 106, 107, 112–13, 117
of Old Testament 84–85, 106, 107, 112–13, 117, 127, 129
punishment 227
Good Friday 149
Great Divorce, The 186–87, 194
Greenslade, S. L. 181n76
Gunneweg, A. H. J. 14
Hagège, Claude 71, 155n76, 165n29, 232n53
Hall, Stuart George 109n29
creole 146–47, 150, 151–52, 153–55, 176–77, 216
Harnack, Adolf von 104, 108, 109n29, 121–26, 127, 128
HarperCollins 189n10
Harris, Sam 85, 99n64, 101, 103, 129n121
Harrison, K. David 71
Hartung, John 95–96, 97, 239n72
Hauerwas, Stanley 13, 173, 176
Haught, John F. 98n62
Hebrew 6–9, 77–78, 159, 163–66, 167–68, 179, 232
Hebrews, book of 75
Helm, David 230
Heschel, Abraham J. 115–16, 117n58
Hitchens, Christopher 85, 90n30, 96n55, 101, 103, 106, 110–11, 118, 129n121, 226
Holm, John 62
holy way 94
Huber, Jane Parker 41
hymns 39–44, 46, 49, 50, 57, 215
Hymns of Praise 40
Isaac 89–91
Israel 164, 166, 196–97, 198, 199–200, 202, 206–8, 209n56, 230. See also Judaism; Old Testament
Jabez 153
Jacobson, Claire 12
Jenson, Robert W. 75, 76, 125, 233n56
Jephthah 87
Jeremiah, book of 33
Jesus Christ
Christocentrism 228
and Marcion 103–4, 106, 117n62
and Old Testament 118–19
parables 233
training 201
Job 134, 139, 151, 172n44, 194, 223
John, Gospel of 118
Jones, Laurie Beth 153
Joshua 103, 196–97, 199, 200, 201–2, 203, 204, 208, 209, 233
Joshua, book of 200
Judaism 16n43, 25, 30, 92, 96n52, 123–24, 125, 126, 128, 164, 165–66, 179n71. See also Israel; Old Testament
Judges, book of 200
Kawin, Bruce 205
Keel, Othmar 12
Kenyon, E. W. 145–46
Lamb, David T. 237n69
lament 52
language. See also under Bible; see also Old Testament: as language; Old Testament: linguistic analogy
Baby Talk Register 168
change 59–62, 65–66, 99, 188, 204, 231–33
children 168–70, 171, 172, 173–74, 196, 220, 236
cognitive content 221
concentration 68
contact 61–62, 75, 77, 78, 232
creole 64–66, 77, 78–79, 83, 134, 151–52, 170–71, 176, 216, 232
death 3, 14–15, 67–76, 78, 101, 148, 160–63, 179, 185
dialect 159n1
indigenous speakers 161n9
L1 161, 164, 173–74, 175, 176–77, 178, 195, 222, 239
L2 161, 173–74, 175, 176–77, 178, 195, 222, 239
linguistic analogy 12–13, 27, 36–37, 38, 46, 48, 56, 91–92, 98, 108, 111, 114–15, 116, 117, 131, 189
linguistics 12, 16, 60, 68n35, 168, 204
loanwords 61
motherese 168–69, 170, 172, 174, 220
and Old Testament 92
phonology 60–61
pidgin 26, 62–65, 66–67, 69–70, 73, 77, 78–79, 83, 114, 116, 132, 162, 169, 170, 172, 175, 216, 232
repetition 204–5
saving 160–62
second-language acquisition (SLA) 173–75, 195, 211, 220, 232, 233–34
universal grammar 168
Lash, Nicholas 238
Lebreton, Jules 112
lectio continua 54
lectionary 29, 49, 55, 57, 215, 225. See also Common Lectionary; Revised Common Lectionary
Levenson, Jon D. 191n14
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 12
Lindbeck, George A. 11–12, 221
Little Gidding 48n82
Liturgy of the Hours 52
Löhr, Winrich 106
“The Lord’s My Shepherd” 42
Lot 88–89
love of neighbor 95–97
Luckman, Thomas 9
Luke, Gospel of 107, 117n60, 233
4 Maccabees, books of 210, 239
Magrassi, Mariano 234–35, 237n69
mainline Protestantism 22, 25, 30
Marcion/Marcionites
Harnack 121–29
and Jesus Christ 103–4, 106, 117n62
New Atheism 105, 106, 110–11, 112, 117–18, 119, 127, 128, 129, 131
and New Testament 171n43, 226, 228n40, 229n46, 233nn56–57
and Tertullian 112–21
McConnell, D. R. 150
McKibben, Bill 6
McWhorter, John 17n47, 65n24, 71, 110, 152, 160, 190n11
Moberly, R. W. L. 172n44
Moses 195, 196, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203–4, 205–6, 208, 209, 211, 232–33
Multnomah Books 153
Murdoch, Rupert 189n10
neglect 44–45
Neruda, Pablo 207
New American Bible 182n78
New Atheism
Marcion 104, 105, 106, 110–11, 112, 116n58, 117–18, 119, 127, 128, 129, 131
and Old Testament 84, 86, 97n57, 102, 103, 104
and Scripture 98n62, 99n64, 150, 216, 231, 240n76
New Criticism 53
New Testament. See also Bible; Christianity; Old Testament
death of 18
Deuteronomy 195
diversity 110
happiology 142–43
as language 224
in lectionary 49–50
martial imagery 118
Old Testament 4, 109, 119, 125, 222–24, 227–29
training 217
understanding 226
New Thought 144–46
Newton, Joseph Fort 29
Numbers, book of 196
Old Testament. See also Bible; Israel; Judaism; New Testament; see also under Christianity; New Testament
and Babylonian culture 126
and children 172–73
in church 124–25
critical condition 185
deception 127
Deuteronomy 195
justification 222–23
lament 141–42
as language 6–8, 9, 76–77, 159, 164–65, 172, 176, 177, 178, 186, 214, 218, 221, 224, 230, 231
in lectionary 49–51, 53–54, 215
linguistic analogy 6, 7, 8–10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 66, 74, 76, 78–79, 86, 102, 111, 112, 159, 178–79
and New Testament 4, 53–54, 109, 222–24, 227–29
as pidgin 78–80, 84, 97–98, 99, 100–101, 111, 128, 129, 131
resurrection 165–66
in sermons 28, 30, 32–33, 36, 38, 214–16
song 235–38
theology 195
training 217
understanding 226
use 235–36
ordinary time 54
Origen 120
Osteen, Joel 132, 133–42, 146–47, 148, 149, 151, 171. See also happiologists
Osteen, Victoria 149n57
Passion Narratives 4
pastor 216, 217, 218–19, 220, 225
Paul, apostle 106–8, 109, 117n60, 118, 126, 152, 223
Peale, Norman Vincent 147
Pennebaker, James W. 141n30
Pentecost 50
Peter, apostle 142
Pew Forum 20–26
Plotz, David 239n72
Point of Grace 47–48
Positive Psychology 132n3, 141
Poststructuralism 53
practice 17
Prayer of Jabez: Breaking through to the Blessed Life, The 153
preaching. See sermons
Project Follow Through 169
prosperity gospel. See happiologists
Protestantism 23–24, 27, 40, 44, 49n83, 55, 181, 182, 183, 184
Prothero, Stephen 20
Proverbs, book of 135–37
Psalms, book of 33, 37, 39–45, 47, 48, 49–53, 56, 118, 140, 141, 184n85, 195, 234
quasi-canonical source 46, 48, 49
Qumran 7n8
Rausching, Herman 129n121
Reader Response 53
reality/social construction of reality 8
Reformation. See Protestantism
religious literacy 20–26, 27, 28
resurrection 165n30
Revelation, book of 239
Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) 11, 27, 33, 48–56, 234
Robertson, Pat 100–101
Roman Catholicism 23–24, 30, 38, 49n83, 52, 55, 182, 183
Russernorsk 63
Rutledge, Fleming 109, 129, 227, 228
1–2 Samuel, books of 200
Sauter, Gerhard 235n63
Schökel, Luis Alonso 76
Scripture. See Bible
Seibert, Eric 119–20, 127n114, 237n69
Seitz, Christopher R. 16n43
Sermon on the Mount 92
sermons 28–29, 46, 48, 56, 57, 219, 224, 225
Sharp, Carolyn 172
Sheppard, Gerald T. 179–80
Sodom 88–89
Song of Moses 205–8, 210, 234, 235, 238–39
Song of the Sea 211
Song of Songs 37
Songs of Trust 40
Tanakh 163
Tarphon, Rabbi 239
Ten Commandments 23, 24, 90n30, 92
Tertullian 106n16, 109n28, 112–15, 116–17, 118, 119, 120
Thomas, Andrew 230
Tiberius 113n41
Torah 47, 163, 195, 196, 198, 199, 202, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 234, 236
Tower of Babel 73
Towner, W. Sibley 39–41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51
Trible, Phyllis 85
Trinity Sunday 50
typology 53–54, 117–18, 119–20
Uehlinger, Christoph 12
U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey 20–26, 27, 28, 30, 44, 55, 56, 57, 86n16, 213, 214, 217
Van Harn, Roger E. 50n88
Wesley, John 101
Westminster Confession 181n76
Wheeler, David 70
white evangelicals 24
Wiesel, Elie 189
Wilkinson, Bruce 153
Wilson, Eric G. 150
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 12n29, 17n46
women 88–89
Wright, G. Ernest 14
Yahweh 85
Year of Living Biblically, The 231
“You Are” 230
Yutscher, E. Y. 166
Zeiller, Jacques 112