Book Notice: THE SEED OF PROMISE: THE SUFFERINGS AND GLORY OF THE MESSIAH: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF T. DESMOND ALEXANDER, edited by Paul R. Williamson and Rita F. Cefalu

Published on November 9, 2020 by Benjamin J. Montoya

GlossaHouse, 2020 | 422 pages

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance

By Jonathan Ahlgren

In today’s book notice we are thrilled to show off two volumes of this GlossaHouse festschrift series. Treasures New & Old includes essays in honor of Donald A. Hagner and the second one, The Seed of Promise: The Sufferings and Glory of the Messiah includes essays in Honor of T. Desmond Alexander.

The Editors of both of these volumes have provided a fitting lineup of scholars and a fascinating array of various yet connected essays.

The list of contributors and essays is so extensive that we have included them in the post for you to look through as you consider picking one or both of these up. Many of these essays by themselves are well worth the price of the book.

 

Treasures New & Old includes essays in honor of Donald A. Hagner

  • Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity: Similarities and Differences by Lee Martin McDonald
  • Was Jesus a Zealot? Finding the Right Context for an Ambiguous Concept by Craig A. Evans
  • Jesus the Only Teacher: Further Thoughts by Samuel Byrskog
  • The Intercession of Jesus by Peter Stuhlmacher
  • Matthean Priority: You Must be Joking by David Wenham
  • Matthew, Mithras, and Midrash by Craig L. Blomberg
  • Matthew’s Christology and Isaiah’s Servant: A Fresh Look at the Perennial Issue by Jeannine K. Brown
  • Matthew’s (Portrayal of) Jesus: A Jewish Messiah in an Anti-Semitic Gospel? By Richard A. Burridge
  • The Description of Faith in the Gospel of Matthew by Roland Deines
  • Doubtful Faith? Why the Disciples Doubted until the End (Mt 28:17) by Benjamin Schliesser
  • The Resurgence of the Paukl/Mark Nexus: A History of Scholarship from Volkmar to Crossley by William R. Telford
  • Paul in Rome by Paul Barnett
  • Righteousness in the Psalms of Solomon and in Paul by Charles Lee Irons
  • Another Look at the Warnings in Hebrews: A Response to Critics by Thomas R. Schreiner
  • Experiential Cultic Soteriology and the Origins of Hebrews’ Hight Priest Christology by Scott D. Mackie
  • Bart Ehrman vs. Robert McIver on Oral Tradition by Craig S. Keener
  • Caravaggio as an Interpreter of the New Testament by Reidar Hvalvik
  • How Should the Bible Function in Today’s Church? By James D.G. Dunn

 

The Seed of Promise: The Sufferings and Glory of the Messiah: Essays in Honor of T. Desmond Alexander

  • The Skull Crushing Seed of the Woman: Inner-biblical Interpretation of Genesis 3:15 by James M. Hamilton Jr.
  • Weal and Woe in Genesis by David A. Baker
  • Ephraim or Judah: Divine Sovereignty and the Potential for Kingship in Joshua-Judges by Sarah Dalrymple
  • Messianic Trajectories in Ruth: A Redeemer and the Great Name by James McKeown
  • ‘We Three Kings…’ -An Esamination of the Messianic Trajectory of the Books of Kings with Special Reference to Solomon, Hezekiah, and Josiah by J. Gary Millar
  • The End of History and the Last Man by Stephen G. Dempster
  • Suffering Saints, Glorious Kings, and Divine Deliverance: Context and Relecture in the Psalms by Philip S. Johnson
  • Wisdom’s Testamony to Messiah’s Sufferings and Glory by Graeme Goldsworthy
  • Rhetoric and Truth in Isaiah: An Approach to Messianic Interpretation in the Old Testament by J. Gordon McConville
  • Kings and Kingdom in the Book of Isaiah by John N. Oswald
  • The Messiah in the Book of the Twelve: Glory through Suffering by Anthony R. Petterson
  • The Sufferings and Glory of Messiah in the Gospel of Mark: Reflection on the Transfiguration (Mark 9:1-13) by Dane C. Ortlund
  • The Cosmic Drama and the Seed of the Serpent: An Exploration of the Connection between Gen 3:15 and Johannine Theology by Andreas J. Kostenberger
  • The Sufferings and Glory of Jesus the Messiah in Acts 2-3 by Rita F. Cefalu
  • Romans 16:20a as a Summary of Central Themes of Romans by Brian S. Rosner
  • Hebrews, Melchizedeck, and Biblical Theology by Stepehn Motyer
  • Snakes and Dragons: A Neglected Theological Trajectory of Genesis 3:15 in Scripture by Paul Williamson

 

Jonathan Ahlgren

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Assistant Editor and Administrative Editor for Books At a Glance

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THE SEED OF PROMISE: THE SUFFERINGS AND GLORY OF THE MESSIAH: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF T. DESMOND ALEXANDER, edited by Paul R. Williamson and Rita F. Cefalu

GlossaHouse, 2020 | 422 pages

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