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The Drama of Scripture
Bartholomew, Craig G. Goheen, Michael W.
Bartholomew, Craig G.
Goheen, Michael W.
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"The prevailing practice in biblical scholarship is to examine the Old and New Testament documents on their own terms, apart from the rest of the canon. Bartholomew and Goheen take a different approach. They step back from the historical-critical task and present the entire Protestant canon as a single, unified story of God's work in the world. Rather than a work of critical scholarship, which would focus on the historical context or textual questions, their book is an attempt at narrative theology. It does draw, however, on the latest scholarship in its presentation of the biblical narrative and therefore serves as a worthy introduction or teaching tool. After an opening Prologue, in which they layout their presuppositions of the Bible as a single, grand narrative, the authors turn to the selections of Scripture that compose their telling of the story. The remainder of the book is structured in six Acts and an Interlude. Acts One and Two tell the story of creation and fall. Act Three, the longest in the book, portrays the history of the Nation of Israel. The Interlude stands in for the intertestamental period, with special attention paid to Jewish culture in the years leading up to the beginning of the Common Era. Acts Four and Five describe the life of Jesus and the development of the early church, with a closing movement on living in God's story today. Finally, the drama ends with Act Six, as the the authors point toward the coming eschatological work of God"
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2005
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