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This volume discusses various hermeneutical methods used in understanding the New Testament such as word studies, grammatical analysis, New Testament background, theological synthesis, textual criticism, and use of the Old Testament in the New.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 février 1990
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441206831
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Guides to New Testament Exegesis
Scot McKnight, General Editor

Introducing New Testament Interpretation , ed. Scot McKnight Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels , Scot McKnight Interpreting the Gospel of John , Gary M. Burge Interpreting the Book of Acts , Walter L. Liefeld Interpreting the Pauline Epistles , Thomas R. Schreiner Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews , Andrew H. Trotter, Jr. Interpreting the Book of Revelation , J. Ramsey Michaels

Copyright © 1989 by Scot McKnight
Published by Baker Academic a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 bakeracademic.com
Ebook edition created 2012
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means for example, electronic, photocopy, recording without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
ISBN 978-1-4412-0683-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Editor’s Preface to Series
Editor’s Preface to Introducing New Testament Interpretation
Contributors
Introduction: The Challenge of New Testament Study for Evangelicals Today
James D. G. Dunn
1 New Testament Background
Warren Heard
2 New Testament Textual Criticism
Michael W. Holmes
3 New Testament Greek Grammatical Analysis
Scot McKnight
4 New Testament Word Analysis
Darrell L. Bock
5 Sociology and New Testament Exegesis
Thomas E. Schmidt
6 New Testament Theological Analysis
L. D. Hurst
7 The Function of the Old Testament in the New
Craig A. Evans
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Back Cover
Editor’s Preface to Series

F our literary types (genres) comprise the New Testament: the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Letters, and, finally, the Apocalypse. Each genre is distinct, and, as has been made abundantly clear by contemporary scholars, each requires different sensitivities, principles, and methods of interpretation. Consequently, applying the same method to different genres will often lead to serious misunderstandings. Consequently, students need manuals that will introduce them both to the specific nature of a particular genre and to basic principles for exegeting that genre.
The Guides to New Testament Exegesis series has been specifically designed to meet this need. These guides have been written, not for specialists, but for college religion majors, seminarians, and pastors who have had at least one year of Greek. Methods and principles may change, but the language of the New Testament remains the same. God chose to speak to people in Greek; serious students of the New Testament must learn to love that language in order better to understand the Word of God.
These guides also have a practical aim. Each guide presents various views of scholars on particular issues. Yet the ultimate goal of each is to provide methods and principles for interpreting the New Testament. Abstract discussions have their proper place but not in this series; these guides are intended for concrete application to the New Testament text. Various scholars, specializing in given areas of New Testament study, offer students their own methods and principles for interpreting specific genres of the New Testament. Such diversity provides a broader perspective for the student. Each volume concludes with a bibliography of twenty essential works for further study.
Previously the point was made that different genres require different methods and principles. A basic exegetical method which can be adapted to various genres, however, is also essential. Because of the inevitable overlap of procedures, this introductory volume to the series covers the basic methods and principles for each genre. The individual exegetical guides will then introduce the student to more specific background procedures for that particular genre.
The vision for this series comes from Gordon Fee’s introduction to New Testament exegesis. [1] Without minimizing the important contribution Fee has made to New Testament study, this series goes beyond what he has presented. It intends to develop, as it were, handbooks for each of the genres of the New Testament. [2]
Finally, this series is dedicated to our teachers and students, in thanksgiving and hope. Our prayer is that God may use these books to lead his people into truth, love, and peace.
Scot McKnight
Editor’s Preface to Introducing New Testament Interpretation

G uides to New Testament Exegesis is based on the important premise that different genres deserve their own handbooks of interpretive principles. Hence, Guides plans volumes on each genre in the NT: synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, Acts, Pauline letters, Hebrews, and a finale on apocalyptic for the Revelation given to John.
If it is true that different genres deserve their own methodological discussions, it is also clear that the methods for each genre overlap to some extent. No one doubts that grammatical analysis, word studies, textual criticism, etc., are required for each type of literature. Introducing New Testament Interpretation presents the steps of NT exegesis that are common to any kind of writing found in the NT. The essays presented here were assigned to scholars in the field. Each essayist was given the freedom to present the material as seemed best. Since the subject matter was evaluated in the light of what most students need to know, various procedures were followed. Whereas some survey the field, others have dug more deeply into one corner of that field.
Beginning students usually encounter a teacher who contends that the NT cannot be understood (very well, at least) without a comprehensive understanding of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman backgrounds. Students generally agree with this assertion and are stimulated to poke around in the sources. But where does one begin? The Old Testament? OT pseudepigrapha or Apocrypha? Dead Sea Scrolls? Josephus? Philo? The Greek magical papyri? Suetonius? The rabbis? Dr. W. Heard offers to the student a brief survey of the literature, events, and ideas that comprise NT background; further, he appends ample bibliography for those who have a mind to plow deeper in a given area. A careful reading of his essay will introduce the student to most of the facts and all of the sources the beginning student needs.
Every student of the Greek NT has had to learn the various sigla found in the apparatus of the Greek NT. But textual criticism finds few devoted participants. As one of the last doctoral students supervised under the brilliant eye of B. M. Metzger, M. W. Holmes ranks among the finest of young scholars who have walked the special path of textual criticism. His essay is designed to present the basic facts and procedures for doing textual criticism and he includes the most up-to-date charts for classifying external evidence.
Along with the vagaries of background and textual criticism, the student of exegesis also has to master the essential categories of Greek syntax. The third essay, written by the editor, is built on a statement heard when in seminary. I was told, by my Greek teacher, that exegesis is essentially understanding the genitive case, the article, and the aorist tense. Perhaps this is an overstatement; but from my own teaching experience I can say that if the student comes to terms with these features of the Greek sentence, that student will reap abundant harvests. To encourage systematic grounding in the features of grammar, an introduction to diagramming Greek sentences is also provided.
Of all the features of exegesis, none has been used (or abused) more than word study. In the light of the latest progress in word analysis, Dr. D. L. Bock presents and illustrates the essential steps of doing a word study. Students need to give special heed to the author’s instructions on the fallacies commonly committed and to the careful attention given to “meaning.”
Recent NT study has turned toward integrating traditional methods with the humanities. In his doctoral thesis, Dr. T. E. Schmidt demonstrated the ability to utilize the methods now associated with NT sociology and evaluate current theories in light of those methods and the ancient texts. His essay in this volume presents a lucid introduction to the approaches associated with NT sociology. His careful definitions, comprehensive survey of the more influential studies to date, and judicious advice regarding integration will introduce students and teachers to the discipline and enable them to appreciate and assess this field now in full bloom.
Caught at the “right time,” Dr. L. D. Hurst willingly offered an essay for students surveying NT theology. His essay is bound to provoke reaction among evangelical students, although he presents the issues pertaining to the field in a comprehensive and even-handed manner. Dr. Hurst recently completed editing G. B. Caird’s posthumous New Testament theology as well as a festschrift in his memory.
The final essay hails from Dr. C. A. Evans. Christians have traditionally read the OT exclusively from the angle of “predictive prophecy.” Without denying the importance or legitimacy of such an approach, one must also note that the last forty years of NT scholarship have brought to the surface the complex nature of hermeneutics among the earliest Christians (and first century non-Christian Jews). In this technical essay Dr. Evans explores the many factors at work as the NT authors emerged from an OT heritage. Besides some important observations regarding the terms and hermeneutical procedures associated with the discussion of the function of the OT in the NT, he works out his procedure of analysis with examples from the NT authors. If his bibliography is full, it is only because the discussions today are “full throttle” and the topic significant for theology.