This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The authors are scholars of international standing.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Book of Exodus: A Critical, Theological Commentary (Hardcover)
Childs honestly admits that "the purpose of this book is unabashedly theological". As is expected from this author, his aim "is to seek to interpret the book of Exodus as canonical scripture within the theological discipline of the Christian church" (which means, of course, his version of theology). This may disconcert those who do not agree with his precise shade of liberal evangelism, especially in the sections headed "New Testament Context". However, once this hurdle is overcome, this book is packed with useful information. There are few if any thorough textual and philological studies of Exodus, and the notes here are probably the best available on these topics. The sections headed "Literary and Traditio-Historical Analysis" discuss (among other things) the Documentary Hypothesis, but Childs is not overly concerned with this aspect since he is more interested in the canonical form of Exodus. The most valuable parts are the "Old Testament Context", which discuss the meaning of the text and its relationship to the rest of the Old Testament. These sections, plus the extensive textual and philological notes, constitute an excellent commentary on Exodus and fully justify buying this book. The other parts can easily be ignored if you disagree with them.
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Serious scholarship with Attentiveness to Final Text,
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This review is from: The Book of Exodus: A Critical, Theological Commentary (Hardcover)
Childs was the first scholar to attempt to blend the historical-critical approach with attention to the final form of the text. He pays as much attention to the pre-literary theories of the text as well as taking seriously the final form of the text in order to engage the text and its most likely "original" meaning as well as what it means for us today. I also appreciated the fact that he included a section of how the Christian community has throughout the centuries commented on certain texts as well as the usage of certain passages in the New Testament. I found it very helpful and it guides you to further study the sections that we might need to study more extensively. Childs is the first one who attempts to merge serious scholarship along with the Bible's intended purpose within the believing community.
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This review is from: The Book of Exodus: A Critical, Theological Commentary (Hardcover)
I should say from the start that this is a very good commentary that most readers will find very helpful. It does suffer from the general lack of focus in Childs's canonical method. Because his method includes a review of the history of interpretation of each passage, a canonical commentary on Exodus necessarily includes a discussion of source-criticism, which dominated Exodus scholarship for a century. But this is exactly the kind of atomizing approach which Childs has repudiated. This commentary proves, however, that a critical approach to the book of Exodus simply cannot ignore the features of the text which motivated the source-critics in the first place. A thorough history of interpretation does serve to raise most of the central interpretive issues in each text. Childs is a gifted exegete, however, and even with a fuzzy method the results of his reading of Exodus are impressive. Furthermore, he does place the expected emphasis on theological implications. There is a shortage of critical commentaries on Exodus. Until Propp finishes his second volume, Childs's is probably the second best complete commentary after Durham's.
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The book of Exodus begins by recapitulating information which has already been given in Genesis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, New York, Ancient Near Eastern, Alten Testament, Mount Sinai, Ibn Ezra, Reed Sea, God of Israel, Jesus Christ, Middle Ages, Vita Mos, Baal Zephon, Exodus Rabbah, Code of Hammurabi, Geschichte des Exodus, New Haven, Encyclopaedia Biblica, God of the Hebrews, Critici Sacri, Das Todesrecht, Das Wort, God of Abraham, Gottes Offenbarung, History of Pentateuchal Traditions, Holy of Holies New!
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The book of Exodus begins by recapitulating information which has already been given in Genesis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, New York, Ancient Near Eastern, Alten Testament, Mount Sinai, Ibn Ezra, Reed Sea, God of Israel, Jesus Christ, Middle Ages, Vita Mos, Baal Zephon, Exodus Rabbah, Code of Hammurabi, Geschichte des Exodus, New Haven, Encyclopaedia Biblica, God of the Hebrews, Critici Sacri, Das Todesrecht, Das Wort, God of Abraham, Gottes Offenbarung, History of Pentateuchal Traditions, Holy of Holies New!
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- A History of Pentateuchal Traditions by Martin Noth on 6 pages
- Old Testament Theology, Volume I (Old Testament Library) by Gerhard von Rad on 6 pages
- Old Testament Theology: The Theology of Israel's Historical Traditions v. 1 by Gerhard Von Rad on 6 pages
- Understanding Exodus by Moshe Greenberg on 5 pages
- Studies in Biblical Law by David Daube on 5 pages
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- The Social Roots Of Biblical Yahwism (Studies in Biblical Literature) by Stephen L. Cook on page 35, and Back Matter
- The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism (Studies in Biblical Literature) (Studies in Biblical Literature (Society of Biblical Literature)) by Stephen L. Cook on page 35, and Back Matter
- Justice and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by E. Clinton Gardner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The View of Women Found in the Deuteronomic Family Laws (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) by Carolyn Pressler on page 111, and Back Matter
- Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong in Back Matter
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