Andrews University SEMINARY STUDIES Volume 38 Spring 2000 Number 1 Andrews University Press ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES The Journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, U.S.A. Editors: NANCY J. VYHMEISTER, JERRY MOON Associate Editor: ROY E. GANE Book Review Editor: ROY E. GANE Consulting Editors: ROBERT M. JOHNSTON, JON PAULIEN, RANDALL W. YOUNKER Copy Editor: LEONA G. RUNNING Book Review Assistant: JOSE E. GUZMAN Circulation Manager: JOSE E. GUZMAN Office Manager.• KAREN K. ABRAHAMSON Editorial Assistant: KAREN K. ABRAHAMSON Editorial and Circulation Offices: Andrews University Seminary Studies, Seminary Hall, Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI 49104-1500, U.S.A. Phone: (616) 471-6023 Fax: (616) 471-6202 Electronic Mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.andrews.edu/ auss A refereed journal, ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES 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 and brief notes on the following topics: biblical archaeology and history of antiquity; Hebrew Bible; New Testament; church history of all periods; historical, biblical, and systematic theology; ethics; history of religions; and missions. Selected research articles on ministry and Christian education may also be included. The opinions expressed in articles, brief notes, book reviews, etc., are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editors nor those of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. Subscription Information: ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES is published in the Spring and the Autumn. The subscription rates for 2000 are as follows: U.S.A. Foreign (in U.S.A. funds) Regular Subscriber $20.00 $23.00 Institutions (including Libraries) 30.00 33.00 Students 16.00 19.00 Retirees 16.00 19.00 Price for Single Copy is $12.00 in U.S.A.; $14.00 Foreign (in U.S.A. funds.) Printing by Patterson Printing, Benton Harbor, Michigan ANDREWS UNIVERSITY SEMINARY STUDIES Volume 38 Spring 2000 Number 1 CONTENTS ARTICLES GANE, ROY E. Re-opening Katapetasma ("Veil") In Hebrews 6:19 5 LABIANCA, 0YSTEIN S. Madaba Plains Project: Tall Hisban, 1998 9 HERR, LARRY G., DOUGLAS R. CLARK, LAWRENCE T. GERATY, AND OYSTEIN S. LABIANCA. Madaba Plains Project: Tall APUmayri, 1998 29 YOUNICER, RANDALL W., AND DAVID MERLING. Madaba Plains Project: Tall Jalul, 1999 45 OURO, ROBERTO. The Earth of Genesis 1:2: Abiotic or Chaotic? (Part 111) 59 ROHRBOUGH, FAITH E. A Lutheran Understanding of Prayer 69 VAN WYK, A. GERHARD. Beyond Modernism: Scholarship and "Servanthood" 77 WAITE, ALBERT A. C. From Seventh-day Adventism to David Koresh: The British Connection 107 DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS Ndlovu, Trust J. The Church as an Agent of Reconciliation in the Thought of Desmond Tutu 127 Ninow, Friedbert. Indicators of Typology within the Old Testament: The Exodus Motif 128 REVIEWS 129 Anderson, Gerald H., ed. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions (Jon L. Dybdahl) Arnold, Bill T., and Bryan E. Beyer. Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey (Ed Christian) Ballis, Peter H. Leaving the Adventist Ministry: A Study of the Process of Exiting (George R. Knight) Betz, Hans Dieter, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski, and Eberhard Jiingel, ed. Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Handworterbuch fur Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (Frank M. Hasel) 1 2 SEMINARY STUDIES 38 (SPRING 2000) Braaten, Carl E., and Robert W. Jenson, eds Union With Christ: The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther (C. Raymond Holmes) Bray, Gerald, ed. Romans (Chris A. Miller) Burtschaell, James Tunstead. The Dying of the Light The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities From Their Christian Churches (George R. Knight) Carro, Daniel, and Richard F. Wilson, eds. Contemporary Gospel Accents: Doing Theology in Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America (Russell Staples) Collins, Kenneth J. The Scripture Way of Salvation: The Heart of John Wesley's Theology. (Woodrow W. Whidden) Crossan, John Dominic. The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately after the Execution of Jesus . (Robert K. McIver) Dembski, William A. Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design (Timothy G. Standish) Dittes, James E. Pastoral Counseling: The Basics (Alfonso Valenzuela) Fahlbusch, Erwin, et al, eds. The Encyclopedia of Christianity (George R. Knight) Fisher, Robert B. West African Religious Traditions: Focus on the Akan of Ghana (Keith A. Burton) Grenz, Stanley J., David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Karen K. Abrahamson) Hasel, Michael G. Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant, ca. 1300-1185 B. c. (David Merling) Johnson, Phillip E. Objections Sustained Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law, and Culture (Karen G. Jenson) Kee, Howard Clark. To Every Nation Under Heaven: The Acts of the Apostles (Bertram L. Melbourne) Macchia, Stephen A. Becoming a Healthy Church . (Russell Burrill) Marsden, George M. The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. (Russell Staples) Murphy, Roland E., and Elizabeth Huwiler. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs (Jim E. Miller) Neyrey, Jerome H. Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew (David A. DeSilva) TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Nyirongo, Lenard. The Gods of Africa or the God of the Bible: The Snares of African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective (Ernst R. Wendland) Perez FeriAndez, Miguel. An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew (Bernard Taylor) Pfitzner, Victor C. Hebrews (Carl P. Cosaert) Paler, Rolf J. Continuity and Change in Christian Doctrine: A Study of the Problem of Doctrinal Development (George R. Knight) Quinn, John R. The Reform of the Papacy: The Costly Call to Christian Unity (Denis Fortin) Recinos, Harold J. Who Comes in The Name of The Lord? Jesus at the Margin (Bruce Campbell Moyer) Robinson, Haddon W. Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Biblical Preaching . (R. Clifford Jones) Rolston, Holmes, III. Genes, Genesis and God Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History (Timothy G. Standish) Sider, Ronald J. Just Generosity (Bruce Campbell Moyer) Spencer, Aida Besancon, and William David Spencer. The Global God—Multicultural Evangelical Views of God (Jon L. Dybdahl) Thangaraj, M. Thomas. The Common Task: A Theology of Christian Mission (Bruce Campbell Moyer) Vance, Laura Lee. Seventh-day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change in an Emerging Religion (Brian E. Strayer) Weblowsky, R. J. Zwi, and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (Jacques Doukhan) Wells, Ronald A., ed. History and the Christian Historian (Gary Land) Witte, John, Jr., and Michael Bourdeaux, eds. Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia (Oleg Zhigankov) The articles in this journal are indexed, abstracted, or listed in: Elenchus of Biblica; Internationale Zeitschriftenschaufiir Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete; New Testament Abstracts; Old Testament Abstracts; Orientalistische Literaturzeitung; Religion Index One, Periodicals; Religious and Theological Abstracts; Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index; Theologische Zeitschrift; Zeitsclmftfiir die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Copyright ® 2000 by Andrews University Press ISSN 0003-2980 A CALL FOR SHORT ARTICLES In this issue of AUSS we are pleased to introduce a new feature: short articles. In the future such articles may vary in length from one page up to the length of a full-sized article. A number of advantages to inclusion of such articles readily come to mind. First, increased flexibility means that the length of an article can more easily correlate with the nature of its topic. Second, a compact, high-quality article can get more "bang for the buck" by focusing on the author's innovation, without taking up a lot of space for yet another recital of interpretation history that is readily available elsewhere. Third, more writers can contribute a greater variety of articles. Fourth, due to the three factors just mentioned, short articles are efficient vehicles for valuable discussions/debates that might continue through successive issues of the journal. Readers are invited to submit original research articles of any length from a single page to the more traditional length of twenty to thirty pages. Those who may have considered writing for AUSS now have the opportunity of crafting an exquisite gem as brief as a single page. Roy E. Gane Andrews University Seminary Studies, Spring 2000, Vol. 38, No. 1, 5-8 Copyright 'D 2000 by Andrews University Press. RE-OPENING KATAPETASMA ("VEIL") IN HEBREWS 6:19 ROY E. GAME Andrews University Heb 6:19-20 reads: "[19]This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil (e Lc to ac,STEpoi, TOD KCCUCTTETO2CIPATOO, [20]where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek" (NASB). In his 1987 AUSS article entitled "Hebrews 6:19: Analysis of Some Assumptions Concerning Katapetasma," George Rice successfully demonstrated that in the Septuagint the word Kccrearkaaua can refer to any of three curtains/veils of the ancient Israelite sanctuary: the screen of the court (e.g. Exod 37:16 [ = MT & Eng. 38:18]; Num 3:26), the screen at the entrance to the sacred tent (e.g., Exod 26:37; 37:5 [= MT & Eng. 36:37D, and the inner veil that separated the holy of holies from the outer sanctum (e.g. Exod 26:31, 33, 34, 35).1 Having shown that Karcarracriloc, can have a variety of meanings, Rice maintained that in Heb 6:19 the word should be freed from the generally accepted idea that it is the inner/second veil,' and interpreted Katcarkaaua in this context as referring USS 25 (1987): 65-71. In his list of references to the courtyard veil, Rice indudes Exod 37:26, which appears to be a typographical error for Exod 37:16 (67 n. 9). Rice's article has been reprinted as Appendix B in Issues in the Book of Hebrews, ed. F. Holbrook, Daniel and Revelation Committee 4 (Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 1989), 229-234.