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HEARING THE OLD TESTAMENT

David Beldman in Bristol, UK

Despite a great deal of excellent work being done in the area of Old Testament Studies there is still widespread confusion as to how contemporary Christians ought to understand the Old Testament and its relevance for all of life. This volume will be a collection of carefully planned and commissioned essays entitled Hearing the Old Testament (HtOT) (Eerdmans). As the title suggests the aim of the book is to help readers to hear and appropriate God's address in the Old Testament. There are a number of volumes on the market which discuss the various methods in Old Testament interpretation or which introduce the specific sections of the Old Testament, but HtOT aims to fill a gap by deliberately focusing on how to hear God's address in the Old Testament. This gap is acute in Old Testament studies in which there is a resurgence of interest in theological interpretation. The time is ripe for a creative reexamination of the issues in Old Testament interpretation, and HtOT has the potential to offer such a reexamination.

To facilitate the overall aim of the book, we have been very deliberate about the structure and the proposed chapter topics. It will consist of three parts which also reflect three phases in the project:

1. Part 1. An introduction written by Craig Bartholomew delineating a Trinitarian hermeneutic for the Old Testament. This will argue with Childs that a Trinitarian hermeneutic must do justice to the "discrete witness" of the OT while also recognizing it as part of the Canon of Scripture which witnesses to Jesus Christ. Part 1 will also include a chapter by Al Wolters on the history of OT study since the narrative of the discipline is crucial to creatively working in biblical studies at hearing the OT today.

2. Part 2 dealing with the various dimensions of hearing the Old Testament (e.g., philosophy, history, biblical theology, etc).

3. Part 3 with chapters on how to hear the component parts of the Old Testament (e.g., Hearing the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, Wisdom, etc.).

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction: Listening for God's Address: A Trinitarian Hermeneutic for the OT Craig Bartholomew
2. The History of OT interpretation Al Wolters

PART 2: ACADEMIC COMPONENTS

3. Philosophy and OT Study Craig Bartholomew
4. Literary Analysis and the OT David Beldman
5. History and the OT (including historical criticism, sociological criticism, etc.) Tremper Longman
6. Biblical Theology and the OT (including the relationship between OT and NT) Mark Boda
7. Canon and the OT Stephen Dempster
8. Mission and the OT (including southern perspectives) Chris Wright
9. Ethics and the OT Danny Carroll

PART 3: HEARING THE OT

10. Hearing the Pentateuch Gordon Wenham
11. Hearing the Historical Books Iain Provan
12. Hearing the Major Prophets Richard L. Schultz
13. Hearing the Twelve Christopher Seitz
14. Hearing the Wisdom Literature
15. Hearing the Psalter Clinton McCann
16. Preaching the OT Aubrey Spears
17. Liturgy, Lectio Divina and the OT Scot Hahn

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