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SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE
PUBLICATION NOTICE
e Bible as Christian Scripture:
e Work of Brevard S. Childs
Edited by Christopher R. Seitz and Kent Harold Richards
is memorial volume both displays and evaluates the canonical approach
of Brevard S. Childs, whose attention to history through time animated his
interest in the Bible’s use in the church through the ages up to and including
the present. Just as Childs wrote on a wide range of topics canonical and
theological—both Testaments, Isaiah and Exodus, the Pauline letters, the
history of biblical interpretation, biblical theology, and historical, theological,
and methodological questions—the contributors to this volume, seasoned
colleagues as well as younger scholars who studied with Childs, oer an
international collection of historical, theological, and New Testament essays
as well as contributions focused on the Old Testament. e contributors are
Stephen B. Chapman, Brevard S. Childs, Don Collett, Daniel R. Driver, Mark
W. Elliott, Leonard G. Finn, Mark Gignilliat, Bernd Janowski, Jörg Jeremias,
Leander E. Keck, Neil B. MacDonald, David L. Petersen, Murray A. Rae, C.
Kavin Rowe, and Christopher R. Seitz.
Christopher R. Seitz is Senior Research Professor of Biblical Interpretation,
Wyclie College, University of Toronto. He has published numerous
books including Isaiah 1–39 (Westminster John Knox), Word Without
End (Eerdmans), Prophecy and Hermeneutics, e Goodly Fellowship of
the Prophets, and e Character of Christian Scripture (all from Baker
Academic).
Kent Harold Richards is Executive Director Emeritus of the Society of
Biblical Literature and was Professor of Old Testament. He serves as pastor
of the First United Methodist Church in Mystic, CT, and is president of the
consulting rm Strategy Points, Inc. He is the co-author of Interpreting
Hebrew Poetry (Augsburg Fortress) and co-editor of Method Matters: Essays
on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen and
Method and Meaning: Essays on New Testament Interpretation in Honor of
Harold W. Attridge (both from Society of Biblical Literature).
October 2013, 348 pages
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Paperback $41.95
ISBN 9781589837133
Hardcover $56.95
ISBN 9781589838840
eISBN 9781589837140
