Two Horizons Commentary (23 vols.)

by J. Gordon McConville; Stephen N. Williams; Robin A. Parry; Jeannine K. Brown

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24 more

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2005–2021

Overview

Engage in both concentrated biblical exegesis and meaningful theological reflection with Two Horizons Commentary. Without slighting the significance of philological, historical, and social-scientific questions, scholars in this series focus their primary interests on theological readings of texts, past and present. Authors discuss each book in relation to the whole of Scripture, asking what it specifically contributes to biblical theology. The result is a paragraph-by-paragraph engagement with the text that is deliberately theological in focus.

Edited by Craig G. Bartholomew, J. Gordon McConville (Old Testament) and Joel B. Green (New Testament), the theological reflection in each Two Horizons Commentary takes on many forms, including locating each biblical book in relation to the whole of Scripture - asking what the book contributes to biblical theology - and in conversation with constructive theology of today. How commentators engage in the work of theological reflection will differ from volume to volume, depending on their particular theological tradition and how they perceive the work of biblical theology and theological hermeneutics. This heterogeneity derives as well from the relative infancy of the project of theological interpretation of Scripture in modern times and from the challenge of grappling with a book's message in its ancient context, in the canon of Scripture and history of interpretation, and for life in the admittedly diverse Western world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The Two Horizons Commentary is written primarily for students, pastors, and other Christian leaders seeking to engage in theological interpretation of Scripture.

Key Features

• Locates each biblical book in relation to the whole of Scripture
• Provides insight from some of today’s top scholars
• Contains material perfect for students, pastors, those in the academic world, as well as laity

About Editor Joel B. Green

Joel B. Green (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary. He was Vice President of academic affairs, Provost, and Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Prior to his appointment at Asbury in 1997, he was Associate Professor of New Testament at the American Baptist Seminary of the West/Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

His books include What about the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology, Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching: The Recovery of Narrative and Preaching the New Testament, Salvation, Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology (with Paul Achtemeier and Marianne Meye Thompson), Beginning with Jesus: Christ in Scripture, the Church and Discipleship, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts (with Mark Baker), Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology (with Max Turner), and The Gospel of Luke in the New International Commentary on the New Testament.

For over twenty years, Green has been the editor of Catalyst, a journal providing evangelical resources and perspectives to United Methodist seminarians. An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, he has pastored churches in Texas, Scotland, and Northern California. He has also served on the boards of Berkeley Emergency Food and Housing Project, and RADIX magazine.