According to the Scriptures: The Origins of the Gospel and of the Church's Old Testament
The late van Buren, author of several important books on religion and language, including The Secular Meaning of the Gospel (1963), is published posthumously here in a work that represents the maturation of his scholarship. He employs his well-known fundamental methodological principle to seek a nontranscendental interpretation of the Gospel through linguistic analysis of the text. Historical, biblical, and theological issues are also considered. The first section grounds the Christological assertions of 1 Cor. 15:3-5 in the re-interpretation made by Second Temple Judaism. In the second section, van Buren re-evaluates the validity of the Old Testament for both Jews and Christians, considering differing historical experiences and interpretations of the original message. This book presents a well-written, tightly argued, challenging argument that is most useful for academic libraries with graduate religion or theology programs.?Pius Murray, Holy Apostles Coll. & Seminary, Weston, MACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.