This decision determines the way in which de Wette presents the theology of the Old Testament. In any case, “the New Testament is the best source for the theology of the Old Testament.
O TTO E ISSFELDT
The History of Israelite- Jewish Religion and Old Testament
Theology
As the Father of Jesus Christ, the God of the Old Testament is our God. Already for that reason those elements of the Old Testament are meaningless for the faith of Christians.
Does Old Testament Theology Still Have Independent
Now he must pose the question of truth and must go beyond the phenomenology of religious life to a religio-dogmatic presentation of the essence of Old Testament religion. The understanding of the essence of Old Testament religion under the perspective of the reality of revelation can really only take place in such a way that one makes clear its full connection with the supreme value.
Sampling Old Testament Theology
Part of the task of Old Testament theology, he noted, was to connect the Old with the New Testament (1961: 27). Schmidt, The Faith of the Old Testament: A History The Multicolored Landscape of Old Testament Theology 57.
Covenant
God and the people
Procksch, who formed the basis of his university lectures on OT theology and who has given me many stimulating ideas. Schultz in arranging the second part of his OT Theolqy, only that in a characteristic way he treated Hope separately in a separate section.
God and the World
Walther Eichrodt on Covenant
The person of the mediator [294] forever determined the personal character of man's relationship with God. In complete contrast to the case of the patriarchs, there is no trace of any cult of his tomb or relics;
God, who sends his servant, protects his supreme sovereignty by not wanting to associate his work with the person of the mediator. The work of the founder of the religion seemed to have been scattered to the winds after his death; in fact, it was firmly based on charisma, the free activity of divinely inspired personalities—that is, on God himself.
The Nature of the Knowledge of God
The theological assessment of the Old Testament takes place with the gospel of Jesus Christ as a starting point. Vriezen rewrote and reorganized large parts of part 2 (1966) to emphasize – against Von Rad and his many 'theologies' – the theological unity of the whole.
Theodorus C. Vriezen’s
Approach to Old Testament Theology
Part 1: Introduction
The Old Testament as word of God, and its use in the church Foundation, task and method of Old Testament theology.
The Content of Old Testament Theology
Theodorus C. Vriezen
On the Nature of the Knowledge of God
It is this reality of the knowledge of God that is denied to man by Ecclesiastes. 11700 The priestly writer views all communion between God and man from the angle of the Covenant.
G EORGE E RNEST W RIGHT
Ernest Wright’s
In other words, no attempt was made to present a systematic theology of the Old Testament as a whole. The welding of the two is a secondary phenomenon, which marked the beginning of the law-gospel tension in the Bible.
Ernest Wright on God the Warrior
Only in one place is there a more rational and comprehensive view presented from the point of view of the whole divine purpose in the world. The heuristic value of the Bible's version of cosmic government has been suggested in this and previous chapters.
GEIXHARDVONRAD
- A history of Jahwism and of the sacral institutions in Israel in outline
- Origins
- The crisis due to the conquest
- The crisis due to the formation of the state D. Endeavours to restore the past
- The constituting of the post-exilic cultic community F. Sacral office and charisma in ancient Israel
- The theology of Israel’s historical traditions
- Israel before Jahweh (Israel’s answer)
- The theology of Israel’s prophetic traditions Part 1: General considerations in prophecy
- Classical prophecy
- The Old Testament and the New
The same applies to the Deuteronomistic history's image of the later history of Israel up to the exile. In the Old Testament, it is therefore this world that consists of testimonies that is above all the subject of a theology of the Old Testament. Even stranger is the disproportion in the picture of salvation history in Judit 5:6ff.
Gerhard von Rad On the New Element
Now we will try once again to find out which element in the teachings of the prophets seemed to their contemporaries to be a departure from the religious standards of the time. In their style, the way they talk about God and the things of God, there is a very direct reflection of the achievement of the personal identity of the prophets and their religious uniqueness. This is therefore the first occasion in Israel that a "law" in the true sense of the word was preached.” This is most evident in the fact that the prophets chastised their countrymen for their anti-social behavior, their commercial harshness.
Hos Isaiah says practically nothing about the inner nature of the purified remnant, with the result that it is not easy to imagine what it is. On one occasion he calls those who take refuge in Zion, "the poor of his people" (Is 14:32). The term seems to belong to the language of Wisdom (Ecclesiasticus and tends towards the idea of "measured." In his study, "Und demiitig sein vor deinem Gott," in Wart und Dicnst, Jahrbuch der theologischen Schuk Bethel, 1959, pp.
The Spirit and the Word
Characteristic aspects of the God of the Old Testament The living God, centre of revelation and of faith
God's holiness God's justice God's faithfulness God's love God's wrath God's wisdom.
The action of God according to the Old Testament The instruments of God’s action
Opposition to and final triumph of God’s work Sin and redemption
From the exile, the spirit becomes an essential element in the inspiration of the prophets. This dynamic quality of the word already appears in the names by which it is designated. It is impossible to study the theology of the word without relating it to the revelation of God in history.
I don't recall any theology in the Old Testament dealing with the issues of war and peace. The theology of the Old Testament must be a study of the reality of Yahweh. Many modern critics believe that the cult was the most important source of Old Testament literature.
WKTHER Z IMMERLI
Life before God
Does the name of Yahweh, which Israel calls upon, reveal some- thing of the nature of this God?
And this freedom of Yahweh must be taken into account in all other statements about the faith of the Old Testament. English translation: “The Form-Critical Problem of the Hexateuch,” in The Probkm of the Hexateuch and Other Essays (trans. God of Israel” by an extension of the circle of those who profess him in the land of Canaan.
LawandPromise
Isaiah and the Liberation of Jerusalem: A Study in the Interpretation of Old Testament Prophecy. This is also part of the context in which we understand the Old Testament. So far we have looked at the subject of promises in the Old Testament in relation to the books of the prophets.
Materials for an Old Testament theology 71-261 Prolegomena to the promise: Prepatriarchal era 71-83
Thus in each successive ennede a different aspect of the Godhead and God's work was celebrated. But it was the figure of the servant of the Lord that caught the spotlight in this passage. Therefore the servant of the Lord cannot be completely equated with Israel as the servant in all respects.
S AMUEL L UCIEN T ERRIEN
Presence in Absence
Canonicity was gradually imposed from within within the Christian community in worship. Bultmann, "The Significance of the Old Testament for the Christian Faith," in 7Xe Old Ilbtnment and Chtistian Faith, ed. The psalm ends with an evocation of God's action in the history of the world.
C LAUS W ESTERMANN
God’s Judgment and God’s Mercy
This also meant a loss of the diversity in which the Old Testament speaks of God. 3. How the mediator's suffering forms part of the new context of God's mercy in addition to judgment, we shall discuss below. Ezekiel also assumes that the restoration of the people (Ezekiel 37) will be combined with a cleansing of the people from their sins (Ezek 36:16-38).
E LMER A. MARTENS
Land and Lifestyle
God’s design implemented: the pre-monarchy era
God’s design tested: the era of the monarchy
God’s design reaffirmed: the post-monarchy era
The shedding of blood pollutes the land, and no appeasement is possible for it except the death of the murderer (Numbers 35:29-34). Because of the sinfulness of the Canaanites, they were expelled from the land (Lev 18:24). In the seventh year, the creditor was not allowed to demand annual payment of the produce of the land.
BREVARD S. CHILDS
We will find the this-worldly and earth-affirming aspect strong and again in the wisdom literature, especially in Proverbs.
Canon
The real problem lies in the quality of the construction and the lighting it brings to the text. The giving of the law (Exodus 20ff.) and the sealing of the covenant (Exodus 24) form the climax of the fornication of God's people (19:4-6). Let me try to briefly summarize the theological implications of the canonical structure of the priesthood in the Old Testament.
P AUL D. H ANSON
The Community of Faith
As people who respond to the creative, redeeming God today, we represent an extension of the biblical community of faith. The People of the Torah: from Ezra to the Maccabean Revolt 325-339 Different Notions of Community in the Last Two Centuries B.C. Joshua 24, and commentaries drawing attention to the covenantal structure of the Book of Deuteronomy, such as G.
The Way Forward
Similarly, while the centrality of the cult was acknowledged, the royal traditions according to the unconditional promises of Zion are nowhere to be found. In beauty and power, he represented a people whose holiness stemmed only from its centrality in the worship of the one true God. From this center emanated outward into the community a powerful divine example of righteous acts of compassion, interpreted by t&r& and inviting embodiment in the lives of the people.
Old Testament Theology in the Twenty-first Century
The king, like every Israelite, was under the sole authority of the Horeb covenant with its unconditional provisions and absolute commands. It was no longer described as the throne on which the invisible deity sat, but rather as the receptacle of the tablets of the law. As for Yahweh's presence, it was expressed through a carefully worded theologumenon; that is, by El'761 reference to the divine name that Yahweh would put in place of his chosen (eg 12:5), a concept again consistent with early Yahvism (cf. Exodus 20 :24) and resistant to royal theology's concept of the election of David and Zion.
Considering the Old Testament (and the New Testament) as literature means, among other things, A further matter of great proportions is the relationship between the Old and New Testaments. The content of Old Testament theology is indicated in advance by the entire Old Testament canon.
H ARTMUT G ESE
Tradition History