Joshua (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) - Hardcover

Paul R Hinlicky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587433451 ISBN 13: 9781587433450

Publisher: Brazos Press, 2021

Synopsis

Paul Hinlicky, a leading systematic theologian widely respected for his contributions in contemporary dogmatics, offers a theological reading of Joshua in this addition to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series. Hinlicky compares and contrasts the politics of purity and the politics of redemption in an innovative and illuminating way and locates the book of Joshua in the postexilic genesis of apocalyptic theology. As with other series volumes, this commentary is designed to serve the church, providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups.

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About the Author

Paul R. Hinlicky (PhD, Union Theological Seminary, New York; DHabil, Comenius University, Bratislava) is Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is a board member of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology and the author of numerous books, including Divine Simplicity, and three critically acclaimed studies in systematic theology: Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, Luther and the Beloved Community: A Path for Christian Theology after Christendom, and Divine Complexity: The Rise of Creedal Christianity. He is also coeditor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther.

From the Back Cover

The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Joshua, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church and to demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.

Praise for Joshua in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible

"This commentary on one of the most ethically and theologically difficult of Old Testament books is a marvel. Paul Hinlicky here continues the kind of deep, sustained engagement with biblical scholarship that we find in his critical dogmatics, demonstrating in dazzling fashion the benefits gained when theology takes biblical exegesis seriously and exegesis views itself as incomplete without theology. Reading this commentary, one feels privileged to live in this new day of exegetical and theological cross-fertilization."
--Wesley Hill, Trinity School for Ministry; author of Paul and the Trinity

"This is a significant theological commentary on a notoriously difficult book of the Bible. Hinlicky acknowledges the difficulties, but he refuses to be drawn into the literalistic reading of Joshua that occupies both its critics and its defenders. Instead, Hinlicky engages in a literary-spiritual reading of Joshua that yields profound theological fruit for the life of the church. In dialogue with Jewish theology, this reading demonstrates in a compelling way that the book of Joshua proclaims the good news of 'YHWH who fights for us.' It also identifies this God with the crucified and risen latter-day Joshua, whom Christians claim as Lord. This commentary is a gift to all who read the Bible as Word of God."
--Kathryn Schifferdecker, Luther Seminary

General editor: R. R. Reno (editor, First Things)
Series editors: Robert W. Jenson (1930-2017) (Center of Theological Inquiry)
Robert Louis Wilken (University of Virginia)
Ephraim Radner (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto)
Michael Root (Catholic University of America)
George Sumner (Episcopal Diocese of Dallas)

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Praise for Joshua in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible

"In his theological interpretation of the book of Joshua, Paul Hinlicky squarely confronts the dissonances and tensions in the book's account of YHWH and Israel's wars. Acutely aware that the apparently triumphalist account of victory and possession of the land is narrated for a people beaten by its enemies and dispossessed of its land, he develops a reading that uncovers the promissory character of the narrative by uncovering the God of Israel as its main character, jealously critical of all false promises. The canonical place of the book of Joshua in the world book of the Bible, telling the dramatic narrative of God's relationship with God's people from Alpha to Omega, opens a view in which eschatological glimpses of the dramatic coherence of God's story can be found. This is a reading that in its literary-spiritual approach offers a Christian reading for which victory can persuasively be envisaged as the eschatological victory of the 'other Joshua, ' Jesus, who is acclaimed as Christus Victor in the face of the ultimate defeat of the cross. Such a reading, self-critically disavowing all Christian supersessionism, remains in tension with coexisting Jewish readings and establishes a Christian theological interpretation that turns out to be a powerful antidote to the ideological abuse of the Bible."
--Christoph Schwoebel, University of St. Andrews

Praise for the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible

"Designed to serve the Church and further Biblical theology, the Brazos Commentary Series approaches Biblical texts, informed by doctrine from the Nicene tradition. [Ellen] Charry's book [on Psalms 1-50] rises to the occasion. . . . There is plenty of material here both to inspire afresh those who know the Psalms well, and to entice further those who would like to get to know them better."
--Megan Daffern, Expository Times

"[Francesca Aran] Murphy draws on a variety of sources throughout church history, ranging from the Church fathers to modern commentators. . . . This is a worthwhile commentary on 1 Samuel. Anyone preaching on Samuel or studying Israel's united kingdom will find it a helpful resource."
--Michael A. Harbin, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

Edition details

• Publisher: Brazos Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587433451
• ISBN 13: 9781587433450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320