Journal: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Volume: JETS 46:1 (Mar 2003)
Article: Collected Essays
Author: Anonymous

JETS 46:1 (March 2003) p. 161

Collected Essays

Delimitation Criticism: A New Tool in Biblical Scholarship. Edited by Marjo C. A. Korpel and Josef M. Oesch. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2000, 365 pp., 176.00 (NLG).

Eight of the ten essays in this volume, by nine authors, originally were read at a workshop on “Unit Delimitation in Classical Hebrew,” held as part of the first meeting of the European Association for Biblical Studies at Utrecht, The Netherlands, on August 6-9, 2000. Two essays (by Renkema and Toy) were added later.

The essays are as follows: “Introduction to the Series Pericope,” by M. C. A. Korpel (pp. 1-50); “Structuring Division Markers in Haggai,” by M. van Amerongen (pp. 51-79); “Lamentations: The Qinah-Metre Questioned,” by H. de Hoop (pp. 80-104); “The Unit Delimitation in the Syriac Text of Daniel and its Consequences for the Interpretation,” by K. D. Jenner (pp. 105-29); “Unit Division in the Book of Ruth-With Examples from Ruth 3, ” by M. C. A. Korpel (pp. 130-48); “Micah 7:1–13: The Lament if a Disillusioned Prophet,” by J. C. de Moor (pp.149–96); “Skizze einer synchronen und diachronen Gliederungskritik im Rahmen der alttestamentlichen Textkritik,” by J. Oesch (pp. 197-229); “The Literary Structure of Obadiah,” by J. Renkema (pp. 230-76); “Ancient Colon Delimitations: 2 Samuel 22 and Psalms 18, ” by P. Sanders (pp. 277-311); “The Background of the Sense Divisions in the Biblical Texts,” by E. Tov (pp. 321-50).

The volume concludes with indexes of authors and texts.

An Introduction to Classical Evangelical Hermeneutics: A Guide to the History and Practice of Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Mal Couch. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2000, 371 pp., n.p. paper.

This work consists of 23 chapters by seven scholars. Most (but not all) of the chapters are adapted from previously published works; some of the chapters are unattributed to any author or source. The volume is produced “in honor of The Conservative Theological Society” (p. 3), and its essays are devoted to presenting and defending an explicitly premillennial hermeneutic, formulated in contrast to the amillennial hermeneutic of Hodge and Berkhof.

After an introductory chapter by the editor (“God Has Spoken,” [pp. 11-14]), the essays are as follows: “The Evangelical Doctrine of Inspiration and Inerrancy - Restated,” by Bobby Hayes (pp. 15-31); “Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics,” by Ron Johnson (pp. 32-47); “Theological and Prophetic Systems Throughout History,” (pp. 48-51); “Principles of Hermene...