Understanding Old Testament Theology: Mapping the Terrain of Recent Approaches
Overview
Over the past century the field of Old Testament studies has seen an explosion of theologies of the Old Testament, a trend that has only intensified in the past ten or twenty years. This proliferation of literature has made it difficult for students, pastors, laity—and even scholars—to keep up with.
In Understanding Old Testament Theology, biblical theology experts Brittany Kim and Charlie Trimm clearly organize and explain the myriad contemporary approaches to Old Testament theology.
The book’s introduction presents a brief history of the field, highlighting key contributors, questions, and developments. The authors then explore approaches that stress a unified Old Testament theology and approaches that emphasize the diverse theologies of its books and authors. Each main chapter presents the common features found in the discipline: approach, points of tension, and a test case use Exodus to illuminate the differences among the most important approaches to Old Testament theology.
Accessible and unique, Understanding Old Testament Theology provides the only summary introduction of its kind to the field of Old Testament biblical theology.
- Highlights key contributors, questions, and developments in Old Testament theology
- Examines the differences among the most important approaches to Old Testament theology
- Explores approaches that stress a unified Old Testament theology and approaches that emphasize the diverse theologies of its books and authors
Top Highlights
“Old Testament theology functions as a bridge between exegesis of the biblical text and systematic theology. It draws on the interpretation of particular Old Testament passages to build a comprehensive theology of the Old Testament that is in turn used in constructing a systematic theology.” (Page 2)
“For many years, the standard guide to this mountain range was Gerhard Hasel’s Old Testament Theology: Basic Issues in the Current Debate.” (Page 7)
“Brevard Childs thoroughly described the weaknesses of the biblical theology movement and issued its death certificate” (Page 7)
“Even a relatively brief survey of how the phrase Old Testament theology is used reveals that scholars employ it in vastly different ways, many of which are diametrically opposed.” (Page 3)
“Chronicles, which recites Israel’s history from creation to the end of the exile to provide a model for how the returned exiles should live.” (Pages 112–113)
- Title: Understanding Old Testament Theology: Mapping the Terrain of Recent Approaches
- Authors: Brittany Kim, Charlie Trimm
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 177
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Religion › Biblical criticism & interpretation--O.T; Religion › Biblical criticism & interpretation--General; Religion › Biblical reference--General
- ISBNs: 9780310106494, 9780310106487, 9780310106470, 0310106494, 0310106486, 0310106478
- Resource ID: LLS:UNDRSTNDNGOTTHEOL
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:36:16Z
Brittany Kim (PhD, Wheaton College) teaches Old Testament courses at Bethel Seminary. She is the author of “Lengthen Your Tent-Cords”: The Metaphorical World of Israel’s Household in the Book of Isaiah (Eisenbrauns) and several journal articles and dictionary entries.
Charlie Trimm (PhD, Wheaton College) is assistant professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He is the author of Fighting for God and King and “YHWH Fights for Them!”.