Narrative and Ontology

OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY: The "OT" bit references historical, literary, cultural issues (the particulars), the "theology" bit references the Big Picture (and why it matters). These two poles are expressed in the title. This blog concerns everything in between.

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Friday, 19 June 2009

Is the Bible religious or theological?

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Douglas Mangum, partly in response to my post Exegesis: Does religion get in the way? , has posted two more quotes arguing for the separati...

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Saturday, 14 March 2009

Von Rad was a Barthian

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And this, curtesy of W.H. Schmidt, proves it (I think; there is now an English summary beneath ): "Im Grunde sucht G.v.Rad in vierfach...

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Thursday, 12 March 2009

Tradition-history: a two-way movement

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Although this post can be read on its own, it is part of a longer thread analysing Chris Seitz's Prophecy and Hermeneutics (go here for ...

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Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Continuity in tradition-history

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As I mentioned in the most recent post of my thread analysing Seitz's Prophecy and Hermeneutics , Seitz's canonical approach does n...

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Saturday, 25 October 2008

The greatness of von Rad

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Jim West has noted the recent birthday of the illustrious von Rad (21 October, 1901). Interestingly enough, despite Jim's early passion ...

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Monday, 14 July 2008

Wilhelm Vischer on prophecy and fulfillment

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According to B. Hägglund, one of the implications of the ancient patristic understanding of the "rule of faith" ( regula fidei ) o...

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