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INAUGURAL LECTURES Westminster and Wikipedia: The Westminster Seminary Library in the Twenty-First Century ALEXANDER FINLAYSON ...... 217 Seminary: A Place to Prepare Pastors? TIMOTHY Z. WITMER...... 229 BIBLICAL STUDIES The Targum of Isaiah and the Johannine Literature JOHN L. RONNING ...... 247 Rethinking the ‘‘Sure Mercies of David’’ in Isaiah 55:3 PETER J. GENTRY ...... 279 A Johannine Perspective of the Human Responsibility to Persevere in the Faith Through the Use of MENW and Other Related Motifs CHRISTOPHER DAVID BASS ...... 305 HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES Joab: A Biblical Critique of Machiavellian Tactics CALEB HENRY ...... 327 Why Calvinists Should Believe in Divine Middle Knowledge, Although They Reject Molinism TERRANCE L. TIESSEN ...... 345 Rendering Mute the Word: Overcoming Deistic Tendencies in Modern Hermeneutics; Kevin Vanhoozer as a Test Case MARK ALAN BOWALD ...... 367 Christ-Centered, Bible-Based, and Second-Rate? ‘‘Right Reason’’ as the Aesthetic Foundation of Christian Education PAUL KJOSS HELSETH ...... 383

The Westminster Theological Journal, published twice annually, is edited for the faculty of Westmin- ster Theological Seminary by Vern S. Poythress, Editor; Peter Enns and Jeffrey K. Jue, Associate Editors; Dan G. McCartney and Lane G. Tipton, Book Review Editors; Mary Wells, Copy Editor; Dieter Roth, Proofreader; and Jennifer G. Troutman, Managing Editor. Contributors are expected to consult and comply with the ‘‘Instructions for Contributors’’ and ‘‘Book Review Guidelines’’ that can be found at http://www.wts.edu/publications/wtj. Manu- scripts must conform to The SBL Handbook of Style (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999). An abbre- viated style sheet for footnotes can also be found at http://www.wts.edu/publications/wtj. Contributors are to send three copies plus an email attachment to the managing editor at [email protected]. Annual subscription rates are $35.00 for institutions, $20.00 for individuals, and $15.00 for stu- dents. Single current issues may be purchased at $10.00 per copy. Inquiries concerning subscrip- tions and back issues should be addressed to the managing editor. JOBNAME: No Job Name PAGE: 1 SESS: 43 OUTPUT: Fri Jan 11 11:12:57 2008 SUM: 2CFEF301 /cambridge/wts/wtj/fall2007/backcvrs

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ABSTRACTS OF RECENT DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS The Shepherd-Flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38) Against Its Historical Background BERNARD AUBERT ...... 403 Paul’s Exemplary Confidence in 2 Corinthians 1:12–4:6 BRAD BEEVERS ...... 405 Anthony Burgess’s Vindiciae Legis and the ‘‘Fable of Unprofitable Scholasticism’’: A Case Study in the Reappraisal of Seventeenth-Century Reformed Scholasticism STEPHEN J. CASSELLI ...... 406 An Apologetic Response to the ‘‘Error Theory’’ of J. L. Mackie JOSEPH W. C RUMBLEY ...... 408 Sacramental Solemnity: Gilbert Tennent, the Covenant, and the Lord’s Supper GEORGE W. R OBERTSON ...... 409 ‘‘Full of Wondrous and Glorious Things’’: The Exegetical Mind of Jonathan Edwards in His Anglo-American Cultural Context BRANDON G. WITHROW...... 410

REVIEWS OF BOOKS Eugene H. Merrill, Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament JAMES M. HAMILTON,JR...... 411 Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels and Eyewitness Testimony MICHAEL J. KRUGER ...... 413 Guy Prentiss Waters, The Federal Vision and Covenant Theology: A Comparative Analysis BRIAN H. COSBY ...... 417 Aristotle Papanikolaou, Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Encounter ANDREW D. PARLEE ...... 420 David Bradshaw, Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom MATTHEW R. BOULTER ...... 424 A. Donald MacLeod, C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University KENNETH J. STEWART ...... 427

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