Theological Journals, Part 3

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Ben Sira’s Canon Conscious Interpretive Strategies: His Narrative History and Realization of the Jewish Scriptures,” Peter Beckman (PhD candidate), is discussing Ben Sira, c. 160ish BC, and his exegesis of the OT and application to the disaspora. New Horizons (June 2022): in New Horizons (June 2022): BOOK REVIEW: “The Spiritual Marriage between Christ and His Church and Every One of the Faithful, by Girolamo Zanchi, translated by Patrick J. O’Banion. Reformation Heritage, 2021. Hardcover, 152 pages, $19.00. Reviewed by OP minister and professor J. V. Fesko. Dr. Fesko details the importance of Zanchius, noting that he gets eclipsed by Calvin. He studied under Calvin and Vermigli. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE APOCALYPSE,” Dr. Gregory Beale comments on “analogies and continuities” with the OT, e.g., “that serpent of old.” He notes a unity and continuity with the OT. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020): BOOK REVIEW. John R. Bower, The Confession of Faith: A Critical Text and Introduction (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2020). Cloth. $40.00. xx, 415pp. Dr. Fesko gives a thumbs-up for this volume on the Westminster Assembly with its 200ish pages of introduction along with varied indicia. The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews Art. 1V.—Plea for Voluntary Societies and a Defense of the Decisions of the General Assembly of 1836 against the Strictures of the Princeton Reviewers and others.— By a member of the Assembly, New-York, John S. Taylor, 1837, pp. 187. Rev. Alexander comments on Rev. Albert Barnes, a new school Presbyterian, and his trial and acquittal. This should be interesting and a review of an old issue.