New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods

by I. Howard Marshall (Editor)

These eighteen pieces have been commissioned to provide a succinct yet comprehensive guide to the best of recent evangelical thinking about how the New Testament is to be interpreted, so that it may speak most clearly to today's world. The need for such a handbook can be felt more keenly as on the one side a secularized world dismisses the biblical faith as outmoded, unworkable, and unsatisfying; and, on the other, numerous Christian communities, committed to taking that faith with ultimate seriousness, are driven by controversies about how to read and understand the Bible.

Following the editor's introduction, in which I. Howard Marshall examines a familiar New Testament passage in order to exemplify the problems and rewards that await the careful interpreter, the essays are arranged under four headings, beginning with overviews of the history of New Testament study and the role of the interpreters presuppositions in this enterprise; then going on to discuss the various critical tools, the methods of exegesis, and the application of the New Testament to the faith and life of the contemporary reader. An annotated bibliography concludes the presentation.

Because the issues involved here have too often been ignored in many quarters, more than one approach to or opinion about a given matter may surface in these essays; yet, undergirding this diversity is the author's shared conviction, as conservative evangelicals with a high regard for the authority of Holy Scripture, that we are called upon to study the Bible with the full use of our minds.

Genres: Theology

406 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1969

About the author

Ian Howard Marshall (12 January 1934 – 12 December 2015) was a Scottish New Testament scholar.[1] He was Professor Emeritus of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was formerly the chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research; he was also president of the British New Testament Society and chair of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians. Marshall identified as an Evangelical Methodist. He was the author of numerous publications, including 2005 Gold Medallion Book Award winner New Testament Theology.[2] He died of pancreatic cancer in 2015.[3]

Reviews

[Радостин Марчев]

Доста стара книга, в която обаче все още могат да се намерят интересни неща. Като цяло нивото е начално и по-скоро запознава с и въвежда в дадената тема. Авторите написали есетата са едни т най-сериозните представители на британската школа - Х. Марашл, Д. Дън. Д., Голдингей, А. Тишелтън, Ф.Ф. Брус, Д. Гутри и др. което ги прави едновременно задълбочено научни, отворени към съвременните методи (виж например значителния брой есета посветени на различните аспекти от висшата критика) и достатъчно консервативни без по никакъв начин да са фундаменталисти.
Няколко есета заслужават специално внимание. Това се отнася в най-голяма степен за първото есе на А. Тишелтън, Semantics and NT interpretaion, което е изключително добро (Второто му есе в сборника е писано за съвсем друго ниво и излиза извън общия тон). Веднага след него според мен се нарежда есето на Д. Дън, Demitologyzation - the problem ot myth in the NT. Добри са също статиите на Ъ. Елис, How the NT uses the OT и някои наблюдения на Х. Маршал в Historical criticism.
Това, разбира се, е лично мнение.

[Michael Vincent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not for the faint of heart or beginner! Much scholarly and critical work on the study of Hermeneutics. Some interesting, even helpful chapters (history, preaching), but also chapters that could lead to skepticism if unfamiliar with the flaws of criticism. A seminary level text on the interpretation of Scripture, with much discussion on the synoptic gospels. An important work in the history of Hermeneutics.

[Bob Breckwoldt · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of essays by moderate , predominantly British evangelicals of the late seventies and early eighties, attempting to show that critical study of the New Testament is compatible with evangelicalism, and giving examples of the way it can be done. It's general conclusions are generally religiously conservative and optimistic.