Preface

List of Contributors

Personal Portrait Erwin P. Rudolph

LEAD ARTICLE

Proposals for New Approaches in Teaching Old Testament Overview Samuel Schultz

SECTION I: How God `Spoke Long Ago to the Fathers’

The Bible and the Environment F. F. Bruce

The Abrahamic Covenant: Conditional or Unconditional? Ronald Youngblood

Gathered to His People: A Study of a Dothan Family Tomb Robert Cooley

Questions From the Prophets Merold Westphal

Right Questions About Isaiah 7:14 J. Barton Payne (permission to publish posthumously granted by his wife)

Jesus and Moses: Rabbinic Backgrounds and Exegetical Concerns in Matthew 5 Alan Johnson

The Promise of God and the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit Walter Kaiser

SECTION II: How God `Has Spoken to Us in His Son’

Hebrew Thought in the Life of the Church Marvin Wilson

Apostolic Eyewitnesses and Proleptically Historical Revelation Stanley Obitts

Manifestation of the Spirit Morris Inch

Authority for a Going and Sending Ministry in the Christian Mission of World Evangelism Robert Culver

Textual Variants of the `Apostolic Decree’ and Their Setting in the Early Church Julius Scott

The Theism of the Apocalypse Merrill Tenney

SECTION III: How God’s Word Abides With Us

Immanence, Transcendence, and the Doctrine of Scripture Millard Erickson

The Inspiration of Scripture Among the Seventeenth-Century Reformed Theologians Bong Ro

The Concept of Truth in the Contemporary Inerrancy Debate Norman Geisler

The Clarity of Scripture Robert Sandin

Italics in English Bible Translation Jack Lewis

The Bible the Foundation for a World and Life View Harold Lindsell

Symbolism, Modeling and Theology William Dyrness

The Bible in an Age of Revolution Harold Kuhn

The Use of the Bible in World Evangelization Arthur Johnston

General Index

Scripture Index

Author Index