Overview
Christian theologians rarely study the Old Testament in its final Hebrew canonical form, even though this was very likely the Bible used by Jesus and the early church. However, once read as a whole, the larger structure of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) provides a “wide-angle lens” through which its contents can be viewed.
Stephen G. Dempster argues that, despite its undoubted literary diversity, the Hebrew Bible possesses a remarkable structural and conceptual unity. The various genres and books are placed within a comprehensive narrative framework, which provides an overarching literary and historical context. The many texts contribute to this larger text, and find their meaning and significance within its story of “dominion and dynasty,” which ranges from Adam to the Son of Man, from David to the coming Davidic king.
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Key Features
- Contains scholarly and accessible volumes written by well-respected Biblical scholars
- Includes notes that interact with the best of recent research and significant literature
- Engages the immense challenges facing today’s church
- Offers new insights and challenges established positions
- Encourages Christians to better understand their Bibles through biblical theology
Contents
- A Book or a Ragbag: A Literary Approach to Old Testament Theology
- The Beginning, Middle, and Ending of the Tanakh: A Preview of the Storyline (Adam to David)
- The Narrative Storyline Begins (Genesis)
- The Narrative Storyline Continues (Exodus to Deuteronomy)
- The Narrative Storyline Continues: The Former Prophets (Joshua to Kings)
- Suspension of the Storyline – Poetic Commentary Begins: The Latter Prophets (Jeremiah to the Twelve)
- Poetic Commentary Continues: The Writings (Ruth to Lamentations)
- Ending of Poetic Commentary and Resumption of Narrative Storyline (Daniel to Chronocles)
- Typology and New Testament Reflections
Praise for the Print Edition
Dempster’s reading of the storyline of the Old Testament is fresh, provocative, helpful—and doubtless will prove to be the stuff of many sermons and lectures. His closing chapter points to some of the links that bind the Old and New Testaments together, an obviously urgent goal for the Christian preacher and teacher.
—D.A. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Product Details
- Title: Dominion and Dynasty: A Biblical Theology of the Hebrew Bible
- Author: Stephen G. Dempster
- Editor: D.A. Carson
- Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology (NSBT)
- Publisher: IVP UK
- Publication Date: 2003
- Pages: 267
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Biblical Theology
About Stephen G. Dempster
Stephen G. Dempster is the Stuart E. Murray Professor of Religious Studies at Atlantic Baptist University in New Brunswick, Canada. He is a contributed to New Dictionary of Biblical Theology and Biblical Theology: Retrospect and Prospect.
