Plundering the Egyptians

John J. Yeo

doi:10.5771/9780761849605

Summary

Plundering the Egyptians focuses on the study of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1929 to 1998. More specifically, it presents the lives and academic labors of Robert Dick Wilson (1929-1930), Edward Joseph Young (1936-1968), Raymond Bryan Dillard (1969-1993), and Tremper Longman III (1981-1998). These featured scholars were highly influential in changing the shape of Old Testament studies at Westminster through the introduction of novel scholarly tools and ideas that reveal methodological and theological development. Their individual historical contexts, scholarly contributions, and interactions with historical-critical scholarship are presented and analyzed. Modifications in their respective methodologies are highlighted and often indicate significant shifts within the Old Princeton-Westminster trajectory from an anti-critical stance toward a position of openness toward historical-critical methodology and its conclusions. The implications of these shifts within Westminster are important because they mirror the current changes and challenges in evangelicalism today.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-4959-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4960-5
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 319
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 2.1: Robert Dick Wilson: Life and Background No access
2. 1. 2.2.1: Wilson's Methodological Approach No access
  2. 2.2.2: The Typical Format of Wilson's Work No access
3. 2.3: Scottish Common Sense Realism and the Evidential Method No access
4. 1. 2.4.1: Evidences that Moses Authored the Pentateuch No access
  2. 2.4.2: Wilson's Arguments Against Pentateuchal Criticism No access
5. 1. 2.5.1: S.R. Driver's Critical Arguments for a Late Date of Daniel No access
  2. 2.5.2: Wilson's Refutation of Driver on the Book of Daniel No access
6. 2.6: Wilson's Position Regarding Daniel's Place in the Hebrew Canon No access
7. 1. 2.7.1: Wilson's View of Darius the Mede as Gubaru/Gobryas No access
8. 2.8: Wilson's Contributions No access
1. 3.1: Edward Joseph Young: Life and Background No access
2. 1. 3.2.1: Semitic Grammars No access
  2. 3.2.2: Young and Wilson's Writings: Similarities and Dissimilarities No access
  3. 3.2.3: Young's Unique Approach No access
  4. 3.2.4: Young's Battle Against Neo-Orthodoxy No access
  5. 3.2.5: Young's Design of Old Testament Theology No access
  6. 3.2.6: Young's Traditional Defense of the Pentateuch No access
  7. 3.2.7: Young's Interpretation of Genesis One No access
  8. 3.2.8: Young's Stance on Isaiah No access
3. 3.3: Young's Contributions No access
1. 4.1: Raymond Bryan Dillard No access
2. 4.2: Plundering the Egyptians, Common Grace and Van Til's Antithesis No access
3. 1. 4.3.1: Dillard's View of the Chronicler and Redaction Criticism No access
  2. 4.3.2: Dillard's Approach Toward Harmonization No access
  3. 4.3.3: Dillard's Advocacy of Genre Criticism No access
4. 4.4: Tremper Longman III No access
5. 1. 4.5.1: Longman's Literary Studies in Context No access
  2. 4.5.2: Longman's Literary Approach to Biblical Interpretation No access
6. 1. 4.6.1: Genesis (Pentateuch) No access
  2. 4.6.2: Isaiah No access
  3. 4.6.3: Daniel No access
7. 4.7: Dillard and Longman's Contributions No access
1. 5.1: Issues of Continuity No access
2. 5.2: From Anti-Criticism to Criticism: Foe Becomes Friend No access
3. 5.3: A Reappraisal of Philosophy and Tradition No access
4. 5.4: Shifting Theology No access
5. 5.5: Westminster and Beyond No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 295 - 314
Index No access Pages 315 - 319