When the two editors of this volume began the project almost a decade ago, neither of us anticipated that it would take this long to bring it to completion. Unrealistic expectations, illness among the contributors and their families, and shifting and competing obligations all conspired to delay the project. We are profoundly grateful for the patience of the contributors who managed to submit th…
This book had its birth in a class on New Testament theology at Gordon-This Conwell Theological Seminary that I began teaching in 1989. In the summer of 1997, I gave a plenary paper titled "The Eschatological Conception of New Testament Theology" at the third Triennial Plenary Conference of the Tyndale Fellowship at Swanwick, Derbyshire. This paper was a summary of the course that I had begun t…
How can God be morally good if he commands apparently evil actions-for example, the extermination of the Canaanites? This booklet explores this important Old Testament topic. "Navigating questions about morality, especially the morality of God in the Old Testament, requires special care and thoughtful, biblical consideration. In this little booklet, Beale provides readers with just that."