Evangelical faith and the challenge of historical criticism

257 Pages·2013·2.95 MB·English

by  Hays

Evangelical Faith
and the Challenge

of
Historical Criticism
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Evangelical Faith
Challenge
and the
of
Historical Criticism
Edited by
CHristopHEr M. Hays
and CHristopHEr B. ansBErry
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List of contributors
University of Oxford and the author of Paul and the Early Jewish
Encounter with Deuteronomy (Mohr Siebeck, 2010).
Casey A. Strine (DPhil, University of Oxford) is an Early Career
Research Fellow at Kings College london, and College lecturer in
Old Testament at Oriel College, University of Oxford; he is the author
of Sworn Enemies: The Divine Oath, the Book of Ezekiel, and the
© 2013 by Christopher M. Hays and Christopher B. Ansberry
Polemics of Exile (De Gruyter, 2013)
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group Seth B. Tarrer (PhD, University of St Andrews) is the author of Reading
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
with the Faithful (Eisenbrauns, 2013).
www.bakeracademic.com
Originally published in 2013 by SPCK, London, United Kingdom Amber Warhurst (PhD, University of St Andrews) is lecturer in
Biblical Studies at King College in Bristol, Tennessee.
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ISBN 978-0-8010-4938-5
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of
the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education
of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by
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Quotations marked esv are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright
© 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission.
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Frontispiece: Miniature of the Resurrection from a fourteenth-century illuminated Book
of Hours, held in Keble College archive. By kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of
Keble College, Oxford.
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This book is dedicated to our children
Angela Ramona Ansberry Judah Caleb Hays
Benjamin Daniel Ansberry Asher Caedmon Hays
Zoe Genevieve Hays
‘They were yours, and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.’ (John 17.6)
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Contents
List of contributors viii
Acknowledgements x
List of abbreviations xii
1 Towards a faithful criticism 1
Christopher M. Hays
2 Adam and the fall 24
Christopher M. Hays and Stephen Lane Herring
3 The exodus: fact, fiction or both? 55
Christopher B. Ansberry
4 No covenant before the exile? The Deuteronomic Torah
and Israel’s covenant theology 74
Christopher B. Ansberry and Jerry Hwang
5 Problems with prophecy 95
Amber Warhurst, Seth B. Tarrer and Christopher M. Hays
6 Pseudepigraphy and the canon 125
Christopher B. Ansberry, Casey A. Strine,
Edward W. Klink III and David Lincicum
7 The historical Jesus 158
Michael J. Daling and Christopher M. Hays
8 The Paul of Acts and the Paul of the epistles 182
Aaron J. Kuecker and Kelly D. Liebengood
9 Faithful criticism and a critical faith 204
Christopher B. Ansberry and Christopher M. Hays
Bibliography 223
Index of ancient texts 237
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Contributors
Michael J. Daling (PhD, Wheaton College) is on the staff at Community
Fellowship Church in West Chicago, Illinois.
Stephen lane Herring (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Biblical
Hebrew lector at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
and the author of Divine Substitution: Humans as the Manifestation
of Deity in the Hebrew Bible (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013).
Jerry Hwang (PhD, Wheaton College) is a lecturer at Singapore
Bible College and the author of The Rhetoric of Remembrance:
An Examination of the “Fathers” in Deuteronomy (Eisenbrauns,
2012).
Edward W. Klink III (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Associate
Professor of New Testament at the Talbot School of Theology, Biola
University, and the author of The Sheep of the Fold: The Audience and
Origin of the Gospel of John (Cambridge University Press, 2007), as
well as co-author (with Darian R. lockett) of Types of Biblical Theology
(Zondervan, 2012).
Aaron J. Kuecker (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Associate
Professor of Theology at leTourneau University and the author of
The Spirit and the “Other”: Social Identity, Ethnicity, and Intergroup
Reconciliation in Luke-Acts (T&T Clark, 2011).
Kelly D. liebengood (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Assistant
Professor of Biblical Studies at leTourneau University, and is the
author of The Eschatology of 1 Peter: Considering the Influence of
Zechariah 9 –14 (Cambridge University Press, 2013) as well as the
co-editor (with Bruce W. longenecker) of Engaging Economics: New
Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (Eerdmans, 2009).
David lincicum (DPhil, University of Oxford) is University lecturer
in New Testament on the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the
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University of Oxford and the author of Paul and the Early Jewish
Encounter with Deuteronomy (Mohr Siebeck, 2010).
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Seth B. Tarrer (PhD, University of St Andrews) is the author of Reading
with the Faithful (Eisenbrauns, 2013).
Amber Warhurst (PhD, University of St Andrews) is lecturer in
Biblical Studies at King College in Bristol, Tennessee.
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