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Must “Biblical Theology” Be Christian Theology?

By Rolf Rendtorff

In its earliest use, just over 200 years ago, the term “biblical theology” meant Christian theology. “Biblical theology” represented a search for the overall theological meaning of the Bible—the New Testament and the Old Testament—from a Christian religious perspective.

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Footnotes

1.

See also Goshen-Gottstein’s “Christianity, Judaism and Modern Bible Study,” Vetus Testamentum Supplement 28 (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1975), pp. 69–88.

2.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978.

3.

See Friedrich Baumgartel, Verheissung: zur Frage des Evangelischen Verständnisses des Alten Testaments (Gütersloh, West Germany: Bertelsmann, 1952)

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The Torah is the first five books of the Bible.