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1 - A Method to the Madness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2019

Ben Witherington, III
Affiliation:
Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
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That biblical theology is a complicated matter is shown by the fact that J. K. Mead’s textbook was the first attempt in some 30 years to try and define and refine the category in meaningful ways. At the outset, one has first to decide what counts as “the Bible.” For persons of Jewish faith, a perfectly good “biblical theology” can be done simply by studying and analyzing what Christians call “the Old Testament,” though ironically when asked about the Christian enterprise called biblical theology, some Jewish scholars say they are simply not interested in the subject.

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Biblical Theology
The Convergence of the Canon
, pp. 6 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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