Table of Contents from Porter & Malcolm -- Horizons in Hermeneutics

Horizons in Hermeneutics

A Festschrift in Honor of

Anthony C. Thiselton

Edited by

Stanley E. Porter & Matthew R. Malcolm

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Horizons in hermeneutics: a festschrift in honor of Anthony C. Thiselton /

edited by Stanley E. Porter & Matthew R. Malcolm.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8028-6927-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible — Hermeneutics. 2. Bible — Criticism, interpretation, etc.

3. Thiselton, Anthony C. I. Thiselton, Anthony C.

II. Porter, Stanley E., 1956- III. Malcolm, Matthew R., 1975-

BS476.H63 2013

220.601 — dc23

2012032134

www.eerdmans.com

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Contents

contributors vii

Thiselton and Hermeneutics:An Introduction to a Celebratory Contribution ix

Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcolm

The Life and Work of Anthony Charles Thiselton 1

Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcolm

facing the other

Poetry and Theology in Isaiah 56–66 15

John Goldingay

Thiselton on Bultmann’s Sachkritik 32

Robert Morgan

Experience and the Transfiguration of Traditionin Paul’s Hermeneutical Christology 51

Mark L. Y. Chan

Kerygmatic Rhetoric in New Testament Epistles 69

Matthew R. Malcolm

“The Rock Was Christ”: Paul’s Reading of Numbersand the Significance of the Old Testament forTheological Hermeneutics 90

Richard S. Briggs

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engaging the other

The Earliest Interpreters of the Jesus Tradition:A Study in Early Hermeneutics 119

James D. G. Dunn

Metaphors, Cognitive Theory, and Jesus’ Shortest Parable 148

David Parris

“But We Have the Mind of Christ”: Some Theologicaland Anthropological Reflections on 1 Corinthians 2:16 175

Richard H. Bell

projecting possibilities

Reading Scripture in a Pluralist World:A Path to Discovering the Hermeneutics of Agape 201

Tom Greggs

Scripture and the Divided Church 217

Stephen Fowl

What Exactly Is Theological Interpretation of Scripture,and Is It Hermeneutically Robust Enough for the Taskto Which It Has Been Appointed? 234

Stanley E. Porter

“Let Us Cook You Your Tea, Vicar!” Church, Hermeneutics,and Postmodernity in the Work of Anthony Thiseltonand Stanley Hauerwas 268

John B. Thomson

index of modern authors 286

index of ancient sources 292

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Contributors

Richard H. Bell, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,University of Nottingham, UK

Richard S. Briggs, Cranmer Hall Theological College, Durham, UK

Mark L. Y. Chan, Trinity Theological College, Singapore

Stephen Fowl, Department of Theology, Loyola University,Baltimore, Maryland

James D. G. Dunn, Department of Theology,University of Durham, UK

John Goldingay, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California

Tom Greggs, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Matthew R. Malcolm, Trinity Theological College,Perth, Western Australia

Robert Morgan, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, UK

David Parris, Fuller Theological Seminary,Colorado Springs, Colorado

Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College,Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

John B. Thomson, Diocese of Sheffield, Rotherham, UK

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