The Way of the Lord Essays in Old Testament Theology
- Michigan William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co 2007
- 341p
includes index and biblioraphy
The Commandments 1. The Place of the Decalogue in the Old Testament and Its Law 3 2. The Sufficiency and Insufficiency of the Commandments 17 3. Metaphors for the Moral 37 4. The Good Neighborhood: Identity and Community through the Commandments 51 5. The Story of the First Commandment: The Book of Exodus 68 6. The Story of the First Commandment: The Book of Joshua 80 7. The Psalms as a Meditation on the First Commandment 91 8. The Commandments in the Reformed Perspective 123 9. "That It May Go Well with You": The Commandments and the Common Good 136 The Psalms 10. The Ruler in Zion and the Hope of the Poor: Psalms 9-10 in the Context of the Psalter 167 11. The Poetry of Creation: Psalm 104 178 12. The Hermeneutics of Imprecation 193 13. Prayer and Worship 203 14. The Psalter as a Book of Theology 214 15. What is a Human Being? The Anthropology of the Psalter I 226 16. The Sinful and Trusting Creature:The Anthropology of the Psalter II 237 Old Testament Theology 17. Constitution or Instruction? The Purpose of Deuteronomy 253 18. "Slow to Anger": The God of the Prophets 269 19. What the Scriptures Principally Teach 286 20. Theology from Below:The Theological Interpretation of Scripture 297 21. Man and Woman: Towards a Theological Anthropology 310