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ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES The Journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University 4145 E. Campus Circle Drive, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-1550, USA Editors: Martin F. Hanna, John W. Reeve Editorial Assistant: Matthew L. Tinkham Jr. Copy Editors: Bonnie Beres, Madeline Johnston, Jennifer Payne Book Review Manager: Dominic Bornand Circulation Manager: Rebecca Murdock Managing Board: Jiří Moskala, Dean of the Seminary, chair; John W. Reeve, secretary; Wagner Kuhn, Interim Director of the School of Graduate Studies; Ron Knott, Director of Andrews University Press; P. Richard Choi; Richard M. Davidson; Paul Gregor; Martin F. Hanna; and Tom Shepherd. Communications: Phone: (269) 471-6023 Fax: (269) 471-6202 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.andrews.edu/auss As a refereed journal, ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES (AUSS) provides a scholarly venue, within the context of biblical faith, for the presentation of research in the area of religious and biblical studies. AUSS publishes research articles, dissertation abstracts, and book reviews on the following topics: biblical archaeology and history of antiquity; Hebrew Bible and New Testament studies; church history of all periods; historical, biblical, systematic, and philosophical theology; ethics; world religions; and missions. Selected research articles on ministry and Christian education may also be included. Guidelines for article authors and book reviewers may be found on our website at www.andrews.edu/auss. Queries to the editors in advance of writing are encouraged. The opinions expressed in articles, book reviews, etc., are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. Subscription Information: ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES (AUSS) is published in the spring and the autumn. The subscription rates for 2016 are as follows: Institutions US$42.00 Individuals US$24.00 Students/Retirees US$18.00 Price for Single Copy is US$12.00. Printed by Patterson Printing, Benton Harbor, Michigan CALL FOR PAPERS ON HERMENEUTICS Andrews University Seminary Studies is planning to publish a special issue in 2018 on Biblical and Theological Hermeneutics. We invite you to submit articles from various disciplinary perspectives, such as Old Testament, New Testament, Church History, Historical Theology, Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, Christian Ministry, and Missiology. Scholars in these disciplines are invited to share their research on hermeneutical definitions, challenges, and implications in connection with, but not limited to, the following subject areas: • Principles of hermeneutics such as sola, prima, and tota scriptura, inner- biblical hermeneutics, presuppositions, context, and application; • Types of hermeneutics such as canonical, redemptive-historical, historical-biblical, historical-grammatical, historical-critical, social- critical, philosophical-theological, literary, structural, and rhetorical; • Sources and resources for hermeneutics such as Scripture, tradition, experience, and reason; • Hermeneutics for different biblical genres such as history, narrative, prophetic, wisdom, psalms, legal, apocalyptic, gospels, parables, epistles; • History of hermeneutics such as premodern, modern, and postmodern hermeneutics. Interested scholars may submit queries or abstracts to [email protected] for editorial feedback before writing a full article. Completed articles are to be submitted to www.andrews.edu/auss. Please indicate in your cover letter that your article is in response to the “Call for Papers on Hermeneutics.” Articles must be received by 31 August 2017. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES Volume 54 Spring 2016 Number 1 CONTENTS ARTICLES OLD TESTAMENT White, Bernard. Adam to Joshua: Tracing a Paragenealogy ....................3 Davidson, Jo Ann. Women Bear God’s Image: Considerations from a Neglected Perspective .........................................................................31 NEW TESTAMENT Young, Norman H. Romans 14:5–6 in Its Social Setting ......................51 CHURCH HISTORY Peckham, John C. We Must Obey God Rather Than Men: Jan Hus on the Authority of Scripture in Relation to Church and Conscience ......71 Jankiewicz, Darius. Vestiges of Roman Catholicism in Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformational Ecclesiology: A Study of Early Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical Ecclesiology .................................................103 THEOLOGY Tonstad, Sigve K. To Fight or Not to Fight: The Sabbath and the Maccabean Revolt ............................................................................135 BOOK REVIEWS Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Abraham: The Story of a Life (Jo Ann Davidson) .........................................................................147 Coogan, Michael. The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text (Zdravko Stefanovic) ....................................................................149 Fudge, Thomas. The Trial of Jan Hus: Medieval Heresy and Criminal Procedure (Trevor O’Reggio) .........................................................................152 Graves, Michael. The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Can Teach Us (Rodrigo de Galiza Barbosa) .......................................................154 1 2 Seminary Studies 54 (Spring 2016) Higton, Mike, and Jim Fodor, eds. The Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology (Elmer A. Guzman) ........................................................................159 Kolig, Erich, ed. Freedom of Speech and Islam (Bruce Campbell Moyer) ..............................................................161 Levterov, Theodore N. The Development of the Seventh-day Adventist Understanding of Ellen G. White’s Prophetic Gift, 1844–1889 (Denis Kaiser) ................................................................................163 Mermelstein, Ari, and Shalom E. Holtz, eds. The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective (Valentine Zywietz) ......................................................................167 Middleton, J. Richard. A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology (Flavio Prestes III) ........................................................................171 OakTree Software, Inc. Accordance® 10 for Windows (Kenneth Bergland) .....................................................................174 Osborn, Ronald E. Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (Martin Hanna) .............................................................................177 Peckham, John C. The Love of God: A Canonical Model (Richard Rice) ...............................................................................182 Smith, Gary V. Interpreting the Prophetic Books: An Exegetical Handbook (Ronald Rojas) ..............................................................................185 * * * * * * * * * * * * The articles in this journal are indexed, abstracted, or listed in: Elenchus of Biblica; Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete; New Testament Abstracts; Index Theologicus/Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst Theologie; Old Testament Abstracts; Orientalistische Literaturzeitung; Religion Index One, Periodicals; Religious and Theological Abstracts; Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index; Theologische Zeitschrift; Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Copyright © 2016 by Andrews University Press ISSN 0003-2980 BOOK REVIEWS Boxall, Ian. Discovering Matthew: Content, Interpretation, Reception. DBT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015. ix + 206 pp. Softcover, US$22.00. Ian Boxall is associate professor of New Testament at The Catholic University of America. He previously taught New Testament at Chichester Theological College and the University of Oxford. He has published a number of books, including The Revelation of St John (Black’s New Testament Commentaries) and Patmos in the Reception History of the Apocalypse (Oxford University Press). Discovering Matthew has twelve substantial chapters followed by a short concluding chapter. As such, it would make an appropriate undergraduate textbook. Chapter 1 contains a historical survey of the status of the Gospel and the shift in critical scholarship from Matthean to Markan priority. This is followed by a description of what Boxall deems to be a number of “contradictory elements” within the Gospel (e.g., universalism vs. particularism, “Jewish” and “anti-Jewish” statements, mercy vs. judgment). These tensions are left unresolved, thus setting the agenda for the rest of the book. The chapter concludes with an overview of the Gospel’s plot. The second chapter presents various critical approaches used to interpret Matthew. Boxall argues that the quest for univocal meaning characteristic of both historical criticism, with its emphasis on authorial intention and original context, and narrative criticism, with its focus on the meaning of the text, contrasts with both precritical and postmodern approaches. Precritical patristic exegesis recognized multiple levels of meaning in the text, whether literal, spiritual, or allegorical. Boxall suggests that this approach rings true with postmodern expectations that texts embody a plethora of meanings. In chapter three, Boxall discusses background questions, such as authorship, dating, structure, textual variants, and auditory experience. He follows the majority of critical Matthean scholarship in accepting Markan priority and rejecting the apostle