Horizons in Hermeneutics
A Festschrift in Honor of
Anthony C. Thiselton
Edited by
Stanley E. Porter & Matthew R. Malcolm
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.
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© 2013 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Published 2013 by
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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P.O. Box 163, Cambridge CB3 9PU U.K.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Horizons in hermeneutics: a festschrift in honor of Anthony C. Thiselton /
edited by Stanley E. Porter & Matthew R. Malcolm.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8028-6927-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Bible — Hermeneutics. 2. Bible — Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. Thiselton, Anthony C. I. Thiselton, Anthony C.
II. Porter, Stanley E., 1956- III. Malcolm, Matthew R., 1975-
BS476.H63 2013
220.601 — dc23
2012032134
www.eerdmans.com
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Contents
contributors vii
Thiselton and Hermeneutics:An Introduction to a Celebratory Contribution ix
Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcolm
The Life and Work of Anthony Charles Thiselton 1
Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcolm
facing the other
Poetry and Theology in Isaiah 56–66 15
John Goldingay
Thiselton on Bultmann’s Sachkritik 32
Robert Morgan
Experience and the Transfiguration of Traditionin Paul’s Hermeneutical Christology 51
Mark L. Y. Chan
Kerygmatic Rhetoric in New Testament Epistles 69
Matthew R. Malcolm
“The Rock Was Christ”: Paul’s Reading of Numbersand the Significance of the Old Testament forTheological Hermeneutics 90
Richard S. Briggs
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engaging the other
The Earliest Interpreters of the Jesus Tradition:A Study in Early Hermeneutics 119
James D. G. Dunn
Metaphors, Cognitive Theory, and Jesus’ Shortest Parable 148
David Parris
“But We Have the Mind of Christ”: Some Theologicaland Anthropological Reflections on 1 Corinthians 2:16 175
Richard H. Bell
projecting possibilities
Reading Scripture in a Pluralist World:A Path to Discovering the Hermeneutics of Agape 201
Tom Greggs
Scripture and the Divided Church 217
Stephen Fowl
What Exactly Is Theological Interpretation of Scripture,and Is It Hermeneutically Robust Enough for the Taskto Which It Has Been Appointed? 234
Stanley E. Porter
“Let Us Cook You Your Tea, Vicar!” Church, Hermeneutics,and Postmodernity in the Work of Anthony Thiseltonand Stanley Hauerwas 268
John B. Thomson
index of modern authors 286
index of ancient sources 292
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Contributors
Richard H. Bell, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,University of Nottingham, UK
Richard S. Briggs, Cranmer Hall Theological College, Durham, UK
Mark L. Y. Chan, Trinity Theological College, Singapore
Stephen Fowl, Department of Theology, Loyola University,Baltimore, Maryland
James D. G. Dunn, Department of Theology,University of Durham, UK
John Goldingay, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California
Tom Greggs, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Matthew R. Malcolm, Trinity Theological College,Perth, Western Australia
Robert Morgan, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, UK
David Parris, Fuller Theological Seminary,Colorado Springs, Colorado
Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College,Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
John B. Thomson, Diocese of Sheffield, Rotherham, UK
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