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PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
Introduction Markus Bockmuehl
1 The Septuagint and the "Search for the Christian Bible" J. Ross Wagner
2 Is There a New Testament Doctrine of the Church? Markus Bockmuehl
3 Johannine Christology and Jewish-Christian Dialogue R. W. L. Moberly
4 Reading Paul, Thinking Scripture N. T. Wright
5 The Religious Authority of Albert Schweitzer's Jesus James Carleton Paget
6 Karl Barth and Friedrich Mildenberger on Scripture in Doctrine Jan Muis
7 Rowan Williams on Scripture John Webster
8 The Normativity of Scripture and Tradition in Recent Catholic Theology Benedict Thomas Viviano, OP
9 Can the Truth Be Learned? Redressing the "Theologistic Fallacy" in Modern Biblical Scholarship Ala
10 The Moral Authority of Scripture Oliver O'Donovan
11 The Fourfold Pattern of Christian Moral Reasoning according to the New Testament Bernd Wannenwets
12 The Apostolic Discourse and Its Developments Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Contributors
Works Cited
Scripture Index
Subject Index
Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation of biblical scholarship engaged in what is calle
As editors and contributors alike, we are only too aware that what we offer here is eclectic, partia
it arguably also captures something of the state of biblical studies and dogmatics today. There ar
Any attempt to elucidate how the two Testaments of the Christian Bible, individually and together, t
The question persists because, as Brevard Childs has observed, "the exact nature of the Christian
feature of the church's theological reading of Scripture in every age has been thoughtful engagement
This "search for the Christian Bible" is, he argues, "constitutive for Christian faith" and, as su
That so few biblical scholars and theologians in our period of church history actually grapple wit
Following Childs, I propose locating the question of the authority of the Septuagint in Christian th
In taking up this question, we must first of all clear away some misconceptions and lay the groundwo
1. There existed in the Hellenistic and Roman periods no single "Septuagint" canon or text. Apart fr
Similarly, witnesses to the textual tradition of the Septuagint exhibit a significant degree of dive
the text-critical labors of Origen in the third century, which resulted in a mixture of Old Greek
An examination of explicit quotations in the New Testament uncovers citations that reproduce the O
A smaller number of citations apparently draw on otherwise unknown Greek translations.
12 There is, then, for early Christian writers no single "Septuagint" text. Rather, the New Testam
the beginning treated as a "copy" of an "original" text.
14 This attitude did not prevail at all times and in all places, as the Letter of Aristeas and Phi
But even in the Letter of Aristeas, which seeks to legitimate the Septuagint as Scripture in its o
Of course, in practical terms, Greek-speaking Jews and Christians often lacked the linguistic resour
Among the church fathers, Origen by no means stands alone in his recognition that the Septuagint i
Septuagint or to add a further layer of meaning to the biblical text.19
Eusebius not infrequently offers interpretations both of the Septuagint and of another version (su
Similarly, Christian manuscripts of the Septuagint betray the interest of scribes and scholars in
3. Despite the truism that every translation is an interpretation, the Septuagint, on the whole, ren
It was once (and in some quarters still is) thought appropriate to speak of a characteristic "Sept
However, because the Septuagint is a translation, rather than an original composition, discovering
Moreover, in this bright post-Hengel epoch one can no longer posit a clear and strict separation bet
the Masoretic Text, in some cases these traditions find clear parallels in other Jewish texts writte
Even at a point where the influence of the Septuagint on the development of Hellenistic Judaism ap
This is not to downplay the significance of the Septuagint for the development of Hellenistic Jewish
nor to maintain that the reception of these Greek Scriptures by the early church had only a neglig
It is necessary, however, to insist that the historical picture is far more complex than is often
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