Review in: Interpretation
2007 61: 333
Review door: Richard
D. NelsonGevonden op: http://int.sagepub.com/content/61/3/333.1.full.pdf+html
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Kings
by Gina Hens-Piazza Abingdon OT Commentaries, Abingdon, Nashville, 2006. 407 pp. $36 00. ISBN 978-0-687-49021-9
THIS
IS AN EXCELLENT non-technical road map to Kings, written largely from a
literary or narrative perspective. The commentary is completely accessible to
the non-specialist. Yet beneath the surface, it evidences Gina Hens-Piazza's
extensive and intensive acquaintance with scholarly literature on Kings and the
classic problems of the book. Each unit of text (usually one chapter) receives
commentary under three headings: Literary Analysis, Exegetical Analysis, and
Theological and Ethical Analysis. The Exegetical Analysis sections deal with
paragraph-sized subdivisions of the chapter. Narrowly historical questions are
disregarded in favor of questions of story and structure. Pastors and teachers
will find this a valuable resource. The connections between commentary and
application are almost always natural, logical, and unforced. The author's
reflections on theological and ethical issues speak to contemporary concerns
and do not always take the most obvious or predictably conventional route. The
theological arena is confined to the thought-world of the OT and the
contemporary dilemmas of human existence, without excursions into NT or
specifically Christian concerns. The writing style is straightforward and
undemanding, almost novelistic at points.
RICHARD D. NELSON
PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
DALLAS, TEXAS
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