Description
Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
1. “If Any of You Lacks Wisdom”: An Introduction to the Volume
2. “Who Is Wise and Understanding among You?”
Herald Gandi
3. Discourse Analysis and Literary Criticism: A Comparison of Two Interpretive Models
Stanley E. Porter
4. Puzzling Out Polysemy: The Relationship between Seemingly Unrelated Meanings and Functions of ὡς
Christian Locatell
5. The Parting of the Ways of Old and New Testament Textual Criticism: Deconstructing a Disciplinary Division
Drew Longacre
6. Circumcising the Heart: Man’s Role or God’s (Deut 10:16 and 30:6)?
Michael Grisanti
7. Where Did David Go?: David’s Wilderness Wanderings and the Testing of God’s Son
Abner Chou
8. Paul’s Usage of Psalm 69:9 in Romans 15:3 and Its Practical Implications
Geoffrey R. Kirkland
9. Opposition at the Gate: Psalm 118 and Its Usage in Passion Week
Daniel Forbes
10. Earliest Christian Jesus-devotion and Metaphysics
Wyatt Graham
11. “You Are a Priest Forever”: An Exegetical and Biblical Theology of High Priestly Christology
Clifford B. Kvidahl
12. “What Have I Done in Comparison with You?”: The Itinerary of Gideon’s Pursuit of the Midianites in Judges 7–8
Chris McKinny
13. Economic Ethics in the Didache
Todd A. Scacewater
Editors
Abner Chou (Th.D.) is the John F. MacArthur Endowed Fellow and professor of biblical studies at The Master’s University. He is head translator of the Legacy Standard Bible, the author of The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers (2018), Lamentations (Evangelical Exegetical Commentary, 2014), and I Saw the Lord (2013) and has authored articles on biblical theology, hermeneutics, and
Christian thought.
Christian Locatell (Ph.D.) is Golda Meir postdoctoral fellow in the Linguistics Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is co-editor of Ancient Texts and Modern Readers (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 2019), author of Grammatical Polysemy in the Hebrew Bible (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, forthcoming), and has published articles in the fields of biblical languages, linguistics, biblical interpretation, and archaeology.
Reviews
“As a volume in honor of Dr. Varner, Written for Our Instruction succeeds in exploring his diverse academic interests. This diversity is both a strength and a weakness of this volume. Positively, readers are exposed to several academic disciplines that will challenge them to carefully consider the biblical text in new ways. As a result, readers will be challenged to pursue their own well-rounded intellectual and devotional development.” —Daniel Graham, Books At a Glance
