Theology

Brevard S. Childs

Canon as Rule and Guide

Collected Essays
Edited by Daniel R. Driver

[Der Kanon als Regel und Leitfaden. Gesammelte Aufsätze.]

2023. XXXVI, 574 pages.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament 174

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Penned by Brevard S. Childs, the fifty-two essays collected here span half a century of biblical scholarship. They provide a view into the history of Old Testament studies by a scholar who worked to integrate his command of it with cognate disciplines such as New Testament, Biblical Theology, and the history of interpretation.
The fifty-two essays collected here span half a century of biblical scholarship. Together they provide a view into the history of Old Testament studies from the vantage of a scholar who worked to integrate his command of it with several cognate disciplines, including New Testament, Biblical Theology, and the history of interpretation. Canon is a rule and guide: this is a ubiquitous concern in the work of Brevard Childs. As he argues, scripture has been shaped with frameworks for interpretation, guidelines built into it through a complex editorial process that resulted in a multifaceted canon with two Testaments. Scripture is a canon and rule of faith that in turn shapes the church's confession and life of faith. This approach to scripture entails a holistic view that touches the Bible's composition and reception histories as well as its enduring claim on living communities of faith.
Survey of contents
Editor's Introduction
Part I. Early Studies (1958–1967)
Part II. Canonical Reformulations (1969–1980)
Part III. Canon and Biblical Theology (1981–1992)
Part IV. Recovering Theological Exegesis (1994–2005)
Authors/Editors

Brevard S. Childs (1923–2007) 1947 BA and MA, University of Michigan; 1950 BD, Princeton Theological Seminary; 1955 ThD, University of Basel; 1958 teacher of Old Testament, Yale Divinity School; 1992 distinguished rank of Sterling Professor, Yale University; 1999 retirement.

Daniel R. Driver Born 1979; 2002 BA, English Literature, Wheaton College (IL); 2009 PhD, Divinity, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews (UK); 2008−16 teaching position, Tyndale University, Toronto; faculty member, Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax, and Professor of Old Testament.
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