The Old Testament in the life of God's people
Subtitle: essays in honor of Elmer A. Martens
By: edited by Jon Isaak
Contributors: Isaak, Jon M., 1960-; Martens, E. A.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781575061580
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Use; Bible. -- N.T. -- Relation to the Old Testament; Justice -- Biblical teaching; Nature in the Bible; Nature -- Religious aspects; Earth in the Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Elmer A. Martens: a biographical sketch; title: Phyllis Martens; title: Abbreviations; title: Publications by Elmer A. Martens; title: Embracing the law: a biblical theological perspective / Elmer A. Martens; title: God's design and postmodernism: recent approaches to Old Testament theology / Paul R. House; title: Educating to become wise: intercultural theological education / Marlene Enns; title: To know or not to know: Hosea's use of ydo/dot / Douglas Carew; title: The problem of preaching the Old Testament / Franklyn L. Jost; title: On truth-telling and biblical theology / Rolf P. Knierim; title: Yahweh, justice, and religious pluralism in the Old Testament / Elmer A. Martens; title: Creation and peace: creator and creature in Genesis 1-11 / Ben C. Ollenburger; title: Jethro in the structure of the book of Exodus / Waldemar Janzen; title: The case of the Venus Flytrap: the argument of the book of Job / Pierre Gilbert; title: Church of justice / Alfred Neufeld; title: Righteousness in Romans: the political subtext of Paul's letter / John E. Toews; title: O land, land, land: reading the earth story in both Testaments / Elmer A. Martens; title: Israel and its land in biblical perspective / Walter C. Kaiser Jr; title: God's design and the church / Timothy J. Geddert; title: Biblical perspectives on biodiversity: a conversation with E. O. Wilson / Theodore Hiebert; title: All creatures great and small: recovering a deuteronomic theology of animals / Daniel I. Block; title: The word made bitter: at the table with Joshua, Buber, and Bakhtin / Gordon H. Matties.