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Title: | Review of 'Colossians' By Christopher R. Seitz. Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2014. Pp. 217. Cloth, $29.95; eBook, $29.95. | Contributor(s): | Charlesworth, Scott (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1111/rsr.12711 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20193 | Abstract: | Without disallowing historical and critical engagement with the text, the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible asks contributors to interpret scripture theologically in line with the Nicene creed. As a result, most of its contributors are theologians. Seitz, somewhat incongruously, is a biblical (OT) scholar who takes a "canonical" (following Childs) rather than a strictly "theological interpretation of scripture" approach. Thus, he favors Paul as author on the basis that Colossians was part of a unified Pauline letter collection that circulated in the first century (following Trobisch) and the personal elements in Col. 4. Less probable are the assertions that there was no unified body of teaching which can be termed the "Colossian heresy," and that the Jewish scriptures, as Paul's "frame of reference," are "far more decisive" for exegesis than the historical context in the Lycus Valley. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Religious Studies Review, 42(4), p. 291-292 | Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1748-0922 0319-485X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 500401 Christian studies | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950406 Religious Traditions (excl. Structures and Rituals) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130502 Religious philosophies and belief systems 130503 Religious rituals and traditions (excl. structures) |
HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work |
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