Talbot OT Department

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Talbot OT Department TOP PICKS OF OLD TESTAMENT RESOURCES By Owen Smiley Featuring the Recommendations of the Faculty of Talbot School of Theology, viz. Ken Way, Tom Finley, John Hutchison, and Ron Pierce Copyright ©2011 by Owen Smiley. All rights reserved. ii . To Molly & Ella iii Acknowledgments: This work would not have come to pass without the aid and grace of several people. Ken Way provided faculty supervision of the project, giving valuable insights, helpful feedback, encouragement, and lots of source suggestions. Other faculty of Talbot School of Theology, most notably John Hutchison and Tom Finley, answered the call to recommend sources. The Biola University Library circulation, Link+, and Interlibrary Loan departments helped track down innumerable sources. Deserved recognition also goes to my students in Biblical Studies Research Seminar, who took my requests for editing help seriously. Finally, the Talbot Associated Students printed the final copy for editing. Molly, my bride, displayed grace upon grace as at least six hundred volumes passed through our living room over ten months. I am indebted to her patience and support. Ella, my daughter, was born a little more than two months into this project, and is more beautiful than my work will ever be. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ........................................................................................................1 a. Surveying The Field: Tips on Evaluating OT Scholarship ..........................1 b. Notes on Using This Guide ..........................................................................1 c. Unique Features of This Survey ..................................................................2 II. Primary Sources .................................................................................................4 a. Ancient Works & Collected Works of Ancient Literature ..........................4 b. Archaeology .................................................................................................5 III. Reference Works Covering All or Multiple OT Books .....................................7 a. Background Commentaries & Studies .........................................................7 i. Background Commentaries ..............................................................7 ii. Israelite History ................................................................................7 iii. Other Background Studies ...............................................................8 b. Atlases ..........................................................................................................9 c. Dictionaries & Encyclopedias ....................................................................10 d. OT Survey Textbooks ................................................................................11 e. Surveys of Portions of the OT ...................................................................12 i. Pentateuch ......................................................................................12 ii. Historical Books.............................................................................13 iii. Wisdom Literature .........................................................................14 iv. The Prophets ..................................................................................15 f. OT Hermeneutics & Interpretation ............................................................16 g. OT Theologies ...........................................................................................18 h. Important OT Journals ...............................................................................20 i. Whole Bible ...................................................................................20 ii. OT Only .........................................................................................21 iii. Languages, Philology, & Semitics .................................................21 iv. Archaeology ...................................................................................21 IV. Language Aids .................................................................................................23 a. Hebrew Bibles ............................................................................................23 v b. Other Ancient Versions..............................................................................24 c. Lexicons .....................................................................................................24 d. Wordbooks & Word Studies ......................................................................26 e. Concordances .............................................................................................27 f. Linguistics ..................................................................................................27 g. Textual Criticism .......................................................................................28 h. Grammars ...................................................................................................29 i. Practical Guides .............................................................................29 ii. Elementary Grammars ...................................................................29 iii. Advanced Grammars .....................................................................30 V. Top Picks of the Old Testament.......................................................................32 a. Genesis .......................................................................................................32 b. Exodus........................................................................................................34 c. Leviticus .....................................................................................................36 d. Numbers .....................................................................................................38 e. Deuteronomy..............................................................................................40 f. Joshua .........................................................................................................42 g. Judges .........................................................................................................44 h. Ruth ............................................................................................................46 i. Samuel........................................................................................................48 j. Kings ..........................................................................................................51 k. Chronicles ..................................................................................................53 l. Ezra-Nehemiah ..........................................................................................55 m. Esther .........................................................................................................57 n. Job ..............................................................................................................59 o. Psalms ........................................................................................................61 p. Proverbs .....................................................................................................63 q. Ecclesiastes ................................................................................................65 r. Song of Songs ............................................................................................67 s. Isaiah ..........................................................................................................69 t. Jeremiah .....................................................................................................71 vi u. Lamentations ..............................................................................................73 v. Ezekiel........................................................................................................75 w. Daniel .........................................................................................................77 x. The Twelve (All The Minor Prophets) ......................................................79 y. Hosea..........................................................................................................81 z. Joel .............................................................................................................83 aa. Amos ..........................................................................................................84 bb. Obadiah ......................................................................................................87 cc. Jonah ..........................................................................................................88 dd. Micah .........................................................................................................90 ee. Nahum ........................................................................................................91 ff. Habakkuk ...................................................................................................93 gg. Zephaniah ...................................................................................................94 hh. Haggai ........................................................................................................96 ii. Zechariah....................................................................................................97 jj. Malachi ....................................................................................................100
Recommended publications
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls: a Biography Pdf, Epub, Ebook
    THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A BIOGRAPHY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK John J. Collins | 288 pages | 08 Nov 2012 | Princeton University Press | 9780691143675 | English | New Jersey, United States The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography PDF Book It presents the story of the scrolls from several perspectives - from the people of Qumran, from those second temple Israelites living in Jerusalem, from the early Christians, and what it means today. The historian Josephus relates the division of the Jews of the Second Temple period into three orders: the Sadducees , the Pharisees , and the Essenes. Currently, he is completing a comprehensive, multi-volume study on the archaeology of Qumran. DSSEL covers only the non-biblical Qumran texts based on a formal understanding of what constitutes a biblical text. Enter email address. And he unravels the impassioned disputes surrounding the scrolls and Christianity. The scrolls include the oldest biblical manuscripts ever found. Also recovered were archeological artifacts that confirmed the scroll dates suggested by paleographic study. His heirs sponsored construction of the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem's Israel Museum, in which these unique manuscripts are exhibited to the public. In the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. For example, the species of animal from which the scrolls were fashioned — sheep or cow — was identified by comparing sections of the mitochondrial DNA found in the cells of the parchment skin to that of more than 10 species of animals until a match was found. Noam Mizrahi from the department of biblical studies, in collaboration with Prof.
    [Show full text]
  • POSTMODERN OR PROPOSITIONAL? Robert L
    TMSJ 18/1 (Spring 2007) 3-21 THE NATURE OF TRUTH: POSTMODERN OR PROPOSITIONAL? Robert L. Thomas Professor of New Testament Ernest R. Sandeen laid a foundation for a contemporary concept of truth that was unique among evangelicals with a high view of Scripture. He proposed that the concept of inerrancy based on a literal method of interpretation was late in coming during the Christian era, having its beginning among the Princeton theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He ruled out their doctrines related to inspiration because they were based on rational thinking which he taught was absent from earlier Christian thought. Subsequent evaluations of Sandeen’s work have disproved his assumption that those doctrines were absent from Christianity prior to the Princeton era. Yet well-known Christian writers have since built on Sandeen’s foundation that excludes rationality and precision from an interpretation of Scripture. The Sandeenists criticize the Princetonians for overreacting in their response to modernism, for their use of literal principles of interpretation, for defining propositional truth derived from the Bible, and for excluding the Holy Spirit’s help in interpretation. All such criticisms have proven to be without foundation. The Princetonians were not without fault, but their utilization of common sense in biblical interpretation was their strong virtue. Unfortunately, even the Journal of the inerrantist Evangelical Theological Society has promoted some of the same errors as Sandeen. The divine element in inspiration is a guarantee of the rationality and precision of Scripture, because God, the ultimate author of Scripture, is quite rational and precise, as proven by Scripture itself.
    [Show full text]
  • Nickelsburg Final.Indd
    1 Sects, Parties, and Tendencies Judaism of the last two centuries b.c.e. and the first century c.e. saw the devel- opment of a rich, variegated array of groups, sects, and parties. In this chapter we shall present certain of these groupings, both as they saw themselves and as others saw them. Samaritans, Hasideans, Pharisees and Sadducees, Essenes, and Therapeutae will come to our attention, as will a brief consideration of the hellenization of Judaism and appearance of an apocalyptic form of Judaism. The diversity—which is not in name only, but also in belief and practice, order of life and customary conduct, and the cultural and intellectual forms in which it was expressed—raises several questions: How did this diversity originate? What were the predominating characteristics of Judaism of that age or, indeed, were there such? Was there a Judaism or were there many Judaisms? How do rabbinic Juda- ism and early Christianity emerge from it or them? The question of origins takes us back into the unknown. The religious and social history of Judaism in the latter part of the Persian era and in the Ptolemaic age (the fourth and third centuries b.c.e.) is little documented. The Persian prov- ince of Judah was a temple state ruled by a high-priestly aristocracy. Although some of the later parts of the Bible were written then and others edited at that time, and despite some new information from the Dead Sea manuscripts, the age itself remains largely unknown. Some scholars have tried to reconstruct the history of this period by work- ing back from the conflict between Hellenism and Judaism that broke into open revolt in the early second century.1 With the conquests of Alexander the Great in 334–323 b.c.e.—and indeed, somewhat earlier—the vital and powerful culture of the Greeks and the age-old cultures of the Near East entered upon a process of contact and conflict and generated varied forms of religious synthesis and self- definition.
    [Show full text]
  • Current Magazine
    THE MAGAZINE OF WESTERN SEMINARY | Spring 2021 WITH AND FOR THE CHURCH INTRODUCING PRESIDENT CHUCK CONNIRY ONE STUDENT’S JOURNEY FROM CONGO TO PORTLAND DMIN PROGRAM SEES GROWTH REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST | LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT | | CONTENTS | A Story of God’s Faithfulness FEATURE ARTICLES In this issue of Transform, we introduce you to by well-educated counseling graduates as it is 8 A STUDENT’S JOURNEY FROM an amazing sister in Christ: Esther Lubemba, a by well-prepared ministry graduates. CONGO TO PORTLAND Western Seminary counseling student whose Esther herself expresses this point with crystal INTRODUCING PRESIDENT CHUCK story poignantly demonstrates God’s unfail- 14 clarity: “My professors challenge me to have CONNIRY ing love and faithfulness. Esther shows that critical thinking so that we can integrate coun- pursuing God’s will does not insulate us from seling theories with theology. Techniques are 8 confronting challenges and seeming setbacks. helpful, but they aren’t the ultimate answer.” In fact, such difficulties sensitize us to God’s Esther said she wants to use counseling “to serve the people [of the Democratic Republic WESTERN WORD Chuck Conniry, President presence and enable us to see God’s leading in of the Congo] in the most strategic ways.” 4 COACHING PROGRAM ways that we otherwise could not have seen. CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP Put simply, Esther’s mission is our mission! “The purpose of Esther’s story also highlights the reason why DEVELOPMENT 14 Western Seminary Western prioritizes a nationally accredited WOMEN’S CENTER FOR MINISTRY is to promote counseling program. The purpose of Western 4 CAMPUS NEWS ALUMNI Seminary is to promote gospel-centered gospel-centered 5 DMIN PROGRAM ALUMNI UPDATES transformation by helping the church be the 18 transformation by UPDATE church.
    [Show full text]
  • F.F. Bruce, "The Dead Sea Habakkuk Scroll," the Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society I (1958/59): 5-24
    F.F. Bruce, "The Dead Sea Habakkuk Scroll," The Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society I (1958/59): 5-24. The Dead Sea Habakkuk Scroll1 Professor F. F. Bruce, M.A., D.D. [p.5] The Dead Sea Habakkuk Scroll (1Q p Hab.) is one of the four scrolls from Qumran Cave I which were obtained in June 1947 by the Syrian Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem and subsequently (February 1955) purchased by the state of Israel. The scroll, which contains 13 columns of Hebrew writing, consists of two pieces of soft leather sewn together with linen thread between columns 7 and 8. The columns are about 10 centimetres wide; the scroll was originally about 160 centimetres long. The first two columns, however, are badly mutilated, as is also the bottom of the scroll; this produces an undulating break. along the bottom when the scroll is unrolled. The present maximum height of the scroll is 13.7 centimetres; originally it may have been 16 centimetres high or more. Palaeographical estimates of the age of the scroll vary by some decades, but a date around the middle of the first century B.C. or shortly afterwards is probable. The scroll contains the text of the first two chapters of Habakkuk. The book of Habakkuk, as we know it, consists of two documents: (a) ‘The oracle of God which Habakkuk the prophet saw’ (chapters 1 and 2), and (b) ‘A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth’ (chapter 3). Our scroll quotes one or several clauses from the former document, and supplies a running commentary on the words quoted; but it does not contain the text of the second document, nor, does it make any comment on it.
    [Show full text]
  • John Piper: the Making of a Christian Hedonist
    Copyright © 2015 Justin Gerald Taylor All rights reserved. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has permission to reproduce and disseminate this document in any form by any means for purposes chosen by the Seminary, including, without limitation, preservation or instruction. JOHN PIPER: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN HEDONIST A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy by Justin Gerald Taylor March 2015 APPROVAL SHEET JOHN PIPER: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN HEDONIST Justin Gerald Taylor Read and Approved by: __________________________________________ Michael A. G. Haykin (Chair) __________________________________________ Donald S. Whitney __________________________________________ Nathan A. Finn Date______________________________ I dedicate this dissertation to my family: my parents, Gerald and Diane Taylor; my siblings, Jeremy Taylor and Janelle Staff; and especially my wife, Lea, and our children, Claira, Malachi, and Cecily. Each of you is a gift from God in my life, and I do not take for granted his grace and kindness through you. Thank you for your patience, your love, and your support. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................ vii LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................viii PREFACE .....................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
    The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible James C. VanderKam WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN / CAMBRIDGE, U.K. © 2oi2 James C. VanderKam AU rights reserved Published 2012 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505 / P.O. Box 163, Cambridge CB3 9PU U.K. Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 7654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data VanderKam, James C. The Dead Sea scrolls and the Bible / James C. VanderKam. p. cm. "Six of the seven chapters in The Dead Sea scrolls and the Bible began as the Speaker's Lectures at Oxford University, delivered during the first two weeks of May 2009" — Introd. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8028-6679-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) L. Dead Sea scrolls. 2. Dead Sea scrolls — Relation to the Old Testament. 3. Dead Sea scrolls — Relation to the New Testament. 4. Judaism — History — Post-exilic period, 586 B.c-210 A.D. I. Title. BM487.V255 2012 22i.4'4 — dc23 2011029919 www.eerdmans.com Contents INTRODUCTION IX ABBREVIATIONS XÜ ι. The "Biblical" Scrolls and Their Implications ι Number of Copies from the Qumran Caves 2 Other Copies 4 Texts from Other Judean Desert Sites 5 Nature of the Texts 7 General Comments 7 The Textual Picture 9 An End to Fluidity 15 Conclusions from the Evidence 15 New Evidence and the Text-Critical Quest 17 2. Commentary on Older Scripture in the Scrolls 25 Older Examples of Interpretation 28 In the Hebrew Bible 28 Older Literature Outside the Hebrew Bible 30 Scriptural Interpretation in the Scrolls 35 ν Continuous Pesharim 36 Other Forms of Interpretation 38 Conclusion 47 3.
    [Show full text]
  • Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls
    F. F. Bruce, Second Thoughts On The Dead Sea Scrolls. Paternoster Press, 1956. Hbk. pp.144. Second Thoughts On The Dead Sea Scrolls F. F. Bruce, M.A. Professor of Biblical History and Literature in the University of Sheffield Contents Page Preface 9 Prologue 11 Chapter I. The First Discoveries 15 II. Later Discoveries 26 III. Dating the Finds 34 IV. Khirbet Qumran 45 V. Wadi Murabba‘at and Khirbet Mird 53 VI. The Scrolls and the Old Testament 58 VII. Biblical Interpretation and the Messianic Hope 70 VIII. The Teacher Of Righteousness and His Enemies 85 IX. The Qumran Community 99 X. Qumran and the Essenes 112 XI. Qumran and Christianity 123 Epilogue 138 Index 141 [p.9] Preface Some years ago I wrote a little book entitled The Dawn of Christianityʊpublished in Great Britain as a volume in “The Second Thoughts Library” and in the United States as Part I of The Spreading Flame. I cannot find in it any reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls. News of the Scrolls was slowly being released at the time when that book was being written, but at that time it did not seem likely that the new knowledge would make much of a contribution to the study of Christian origins. Today the situation is quite different. In the eyes of many, the new discoveries have brought about a revolution in our understanding of Christian origins. Those who have appeared slow to admit this revolution have been reproved for their unseemly conservatism, which has been put down to religious inhibition. “It is difficult,” says one writer, “for the clergyman scholar to face certain implications of the contents of the Dead Sea manuscripts.” He himself, we are to assume, is eager only to follow truth wherever it may lead.
    [Show full text]
  • John Sailhamer's the Meaning of the Pentateuch: a Review Essay
    John Sailhamer’s The Meaning of the Pentateuch: A Review Essay James M. Hamilton Jr. 1. IntRoductIon did an essay Sailhamer wrote on the connections his book received significant electronic between Genesis 49, Numbers 22–24, and other Tattention. Mark Driscoll and John Piper texts.2 I say all this to preface the following points went back and forth over it on Twitter, then Piper of appreciation, puzzlement, and disagreement. blogged on it, followed by a Collin Hansen Chris- tianity Today interview, all linked 2. poIntS of appRecIatIon James M. Hamilton Jr. is on Justin Taylor’s Between Two 2.1 Impressive Research in Latin and Associate Professor of Biblical Worlds blog. Even before the gen- German Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. eration of this digital excitement, A few years ago I had the opportunity to meet I had been looking forward to this Sailhamer and visit with him for a few moments. Dr. Hamilton also serves as Pastor book for several years. If asked to When I asked him who he read and who influenced of Preaching at Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He identify the major influences on my his thinking, he explained that he had given him- has written many scholarly articles thinking about the Old Testament, self to reading mainly German and Latin works, and is the author of God’s Indwelling Sailhamer is on the short list with which meant that he did not spend much time Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Old T. Desmond Alexander, Stephen with contemporary work being done in English.
    [Show full text]
  • "Now These Things Happened As Examples for Us" (1 Cor. 10:6):The Biblical-Narrative Depiction of Human Sinfulness Stephen Frederick Jenks Marquette University
    Marquette University e-Publications@Marquette Dissertations (2009 -) Dissertations, Theses, and Professional Projects "now These Things Happened As Examples For Us" (1 Cor. 10:6):the Biblical-Narrative Depiction Of Human Sinfulness Stephen Frederick Jenks Marquette University Recommended Citation Jenks, Stephen Frederick, ""now These Things Happened As Examples For Us" (1 Cor. 10:6):the Biblical-Narrative Depiction Of Human Sinfulness" (2014). Dissertations (2009 -). Paper 348. http://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/348 “NOW THESE THINGS HAPPENED AS EXAMPLES FOR US” (1 COR. 10:6): THE BIBLICAL-NARRATIVE DEPICTION OF HUMAN SINFULNESS by Stephen F. Jenks, B.A., M.Div., Th.M. A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 2014 ABSTRACT “NOW THESE THINGS HAPPENED AS EXAMPLES FOR US” (1 COR. 10:6): THE BIBLICAL-NARRATIVE DEPICTION OF HUMAN SINFULNESS Stephen F. Jenks, B.A., M.Div., Th.M. Marquette University, 2014 For several decades voices from various sectors of Christianity have decried the loss of compelling language for sin. The atrophying of sin language is of no small moment due to the organic connection between theological loci. Sin talk relates to salvation-talk, human-talk, and Christ-talk. Further, the loss of compelling sin language threatens to silence the church’s voice in the culture. Both classic and contemporary theologies of sin, pursuing the essentialist methods of the past, attempt to define sin and derive the fullness of the doctrine of sin from these distillations. However, many of these renderings of sin are insufficiently attentive to the importance of narrative modes of thought in theologizing.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 E R T, Lange's Bibeiwerk 1868 the Book of Nahum, Commentary the Scriptures, Edited by J
    1 e r t, Lange's BibeIwerk 1868 The Book of Nahum, Commentary the Scriptures, edited by J. L a g e, TransIated and edited by h li S c h a f f, New York 1874). - F. i t i g, KeH 18814. - C. F. e BC 18883.- J. WeIIhausen, 18983 (19634).-0. HappeI, DasBuch des Pro- pheten Nahum, 1902. - a r t i, KHC 1904. - D a v i d s n, CambrB 1905 (19202). - S. R. D r v e r, NCB 1906.- G. S m t h, ICC 1911 (1948). - S c h m d t, SAT 1915 (19232).- W. \v a ck, 19223. - C. J. G s1 g a, Nahums Godsspraak tegen Zutphen 1923. - G u t h e, HSAT 19234. ---: G. G. Stonehouse, WC SeIIin, 19303.-G. Smlt, 1934. - F. r s t, (1936) 19542 (19643). - d e 1- k r t, Nahum, Habakuk, Zefanja, Amsterdam 1937. - Junker, HS 1938. -S. Lehrman, SonkB 1948, 19522. EIIiger,ATD (1949) George JerusB 1952, 19562. - S. u 11 u g h, CC (1953), 677-679. - J. L e 1e r q, LD 14 (1954), 85-110. - C. L. a 1 r / J. C 1e- 1a d, The Book of Nahum: Instroductlon, Exegesls, and Exposition, 1956. - F. t s h e r, Echter-B 19582. - W. a e r, The Book of Nahum, Saint Louis / Missourl 1959. - R. v U - g e r - S t e r b e r g / L a m a r t e r, 1960 - J. a t Torch-B 1961. - De1 r, C 1a m e 1964.
    [Show full text]
  • The Rewritten Bible at Qumran
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department Classics and Religious Studies 1998 The Rewritten Bible at Qumran Sidnie White Crawford University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/classicsfacpub Part of the Classics Commons Crawford, Sidnie White, "The Rewritten Bible at Qumran" (1998). Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department. 91. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/classicsfacpub/91 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Classics and Religious Studies at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in THE HEBREW BIBLE AND QUMRAN, edited by James H. Charlesworth (Bibal Press, 1998), pp. 173-195. Copyright (c) 1998 James H. Charlesworth. The Rewritten Bible at Qumran Sidnie White Crawford ince the discovery of the scrolls from the Qumran caves in the late 1940s and earl y-to-mid 50s, the process of sort­ ~ ing, identifying, and editing the fragmentary manuscripts has occupied the attention of scholars. Now, as that period in the histOlY of scroll s scholarship draws to a close, more and more attention has turned to the contents of the texts from the eleven caves ill the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran as a collection. Several things may be said about this collection.
    [Show full text]