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Justified By Faith And Judged By Works: A Biblical Paradox And Its Significance, Mark Seifrid Dec 2001

Justified By Faith And Judged By Works: A Biblical Paradox And Its Significance, Mark Seifrid

Other Faculty Scholarship

Within the space of two short chapters in Romans, Paul declares, “It is not the hearers of the Law who are righteous before God, rather those who do the Law shall be justified” (Rom 2:13); and, “According to our evaluation, a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law” (Rom 3:28).


Interpreting Discontinuity: Isaiah’S Tyre Oracle, R. Reed Lessing Aug 2001

Interpreting Discontinuity: Isaiah’S Tyre Oracle, R. Reed Lessing

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

What follows is an investigation that specifically explores how two of the dominant methods on prophetic discourse understand discontinuity in the prophetic texts of the OT. These are redaction and rhetorical criticism. While scholarship currently offers several different rhetorical reading strategies, the one investigated here is that which pays close attention to history. Because history plays a major role in redaction criticism as well, a central question is: What is the best historical way to read a prophetic text? Such a debate between redaction and rhetorical criticism has not yet taken place in the secondary literature.