The New Testament Interpretation of Scripture - Hardcover

Hanson, Anthony Tyrrell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0281037027 ISBN 13: 9780281037025

Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian, 1980

Synopsis

This is an important and challenging contribution to New Testament scholarship. As a contrast to form criticism it represents a fresh in-depth study of scripture interpretation within the tradition of Judaism. Professor Hanson’s analytical study of Paul’s use of the scriptures on the question of his meaning in 1 Corinthians 2. 6-16 concludes that these passages constitute the strongest possible assurance that the advent of Christ had been pre-destined by God and his death and resurrection were the means of self revelation and redemption for those who chose to enter the fellowship of the Christian church. His examination of these verses further led to the conclusion that assumption of Gnosticism as their inspiration are erroneous. He surveys on current studies on the scriptural sources for the doctrine of the ‘descent into Hades’ to reveal that the doctrine was partly based on a messianic interpretation of the 16th, 88th and 89th Psalms as well as on a typological interpretation of the book of Jonah. The New Testament Interpretation of Scripture is a thoughtful, erudite work, persuasively and lucidly argued by one of Britain’s most respected New Testament scholars, Dr. Anthony Tyrrell Hanson, Professor of Theology at Hull University since 1963.

Edition details

• Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281037027
• ISBN 13: 9780281037025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252