The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Approaches
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Does the Septuagint have authority for the church today?
Numerous scholars have explored what the Septuagint is and its history and uses, but less scholarship has engaged with the ways it exercises authority within the Christian tradition. In the first multicontributor volume of its kind, biblical scholars Greg Lanier and Will Ross bring together experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the nature of the Septuagint’s authority over the ages.
Discover fresh insights from experts across disciplines—including Old Testament, New Testament, patristics, systematic theology, historical theology, and more—into whether and how the Septuagint holds authority for today’s church. With clarity and depth, this helpful addition to Septuagint studies will expand the conversation of how Christians should understand the Septuagint both in the academy and in the church.
This book seeks:
Whether you’re a scholar, theologian, pastor, or seminary student, The Authority of the Septuagint is an invitation to engage with the Septuagint, its history, and its significance for the church today.
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- Explores the nature of the Septuagint’s authority over the ages.
- Discovers fresh insights from experts across disciplines.
- Examines how the early church, Reformers, and systematic theologians view the Septuagint.
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Question of Old Testament Canon
- 3. The Question of the Old Testament Text
- 4. A New Testament Approach
- 5. A Patristic-Historical Approach
- 6. A Reformation-Historical Approach
- Excursus "Kept Pure in All Ages"?
- 7. A Systematic-Theological Approach
- Excursus The Septuagint and "Confessional Bibliology"
- 8. A Roman Catholic Approach
- 9. Synthesis: The Septuagint and Authority
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Karen H. Jobes
- John V. Fesko
- Ed Gallagher
- Joshua McQuaid
- James B. Prothro
- Myrto Theocharous
- Daniel J. Treier
- Levi Berntson
- Thomas Keene
- Mark Ward
- Edmon Gallagher
- Joshua McQuaid
- William A. Ross
- Gregory R. Lanier
Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross arranged an excellent collection of essays on a fascinating topic. With the humility and nuance necessary for such a discussion, the volume gives us the opportunity to explore a question that ancient and modern believers have wrestled with—what authority might the Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible have in the life of the church?
--Andrew T. Abernethy, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and author of Savoring Scripture
Students and parishioners are increasingly becoming aware that some New Testament authors grounded their claims concerning Jesus and the Christian mission in an Old Testament that diverges from our own at some important junctures. This inevitably leads to questions concerning both the authority of a Greek Bible alongside the Hebrew Scriptures and the legitimacy of these New Testament authors' interpretative claims. We now have an important collection of essays by theologians of the highest caliber to help us all wrestle with precisely these difficult issues. Highly recommended!
--David A. deSilva, trustees' distinguished professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary and author of Introducing the Apocrypha