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"While Robinson retained an ecclesiological distinction between Jew and Gentile within the New Testament church, he also proposed an eschatological elimination of the distinction between Jew & Gentile with both people groups becoming one 'new man' or 'new humanity.'" (JETS 68.4)

"The human prophetic authors of Scripture expected greater revelation of the salvation they themselves predicted...they wrote with an eschatological frame of reference, anticipating the Spirit’s full unveiling of the hidden eschatological elements they searched out."(JETS 68.4)

"Throughout Scripture, God extends rest to sufferers not by assuring them of his inability to prevent their pain, but by inviting them to trust his presence and power to redeem their pain." (JETS 68.4)

JETS 68.4 is available for ETS members at etsjets.org/jets-volume/je…, and we’ll be tweeting out article abstracts over the next week. Our thanks to the authors who contributed! To subscribe to JETS, follow this link: etsjets.org/jets/jets-subs…

Index of Book Reviews in 68.3

"The Spirit destabilizes false and fallen notions of our (and God’s) gender identity in order to restore and confirm us in a freshly particularized, Christ-conformed sense of who and whose we are in soul and body." (JETS 68.3)

"Paul—who has charged his delegate to serve as a model in speech—addresses Timothy’s abstinence in this light, encouraging moderation in wine consumption due to his frequent stomach ailments." (JETS 68.3)

"The opening chiastic structure in John 1:1–18, centers on the rejection and reception of Jesus, and the central section of the chiastic structure of the whole Gospel does likewise. The decisive issue is how people will respond to Jesus." (JETS 68.3)

"The inspired author’s moral point can be found in 6:13: Those who attempt to destroy the Jewish people will eventually fall into the pit that they have dug, and those who realize that truth are 'wise.'"

"[Interpreters] must not try to figure out what Ahaz may have understood by Isaiah’s prophecy...Rather, we seek to determine the author’s interpretation of Isaiah 7 within the context of the overall literary strategy of the book." (JETS 68.3)

"Judges not only critiques Israel as failing to heed the law but failing to mercifully apply the law." (JETS 68.3)

"When Watts repeals recompense upon the nations of Canaan, he removes the equality of justice of ancient Canaan & ancient Israel. In Torah-mediated-by-Moses both the nations of Canaan & Israel face the wrath of Yahweh for sustained immorality & its accumulated guilt." (JETS 68.3)

"[This study] seeks to determine what the [Westminster] divines said and did (or did not say and do) when confronted with textual variation within their expositions of Scripture in the context of public worship." (JETS 68.3)

JETS 68.3 is available for ETS members at etsjets.org/jets_online_ar…, and we’ll be tweeting out article abstracts over the next week. Our thanks to the authors who contributed! To subscribe to JETS, follow this link: etsjets.org/subscription_l…

We are praying for a fruitful and edifying week at the ETS Annual Meeting! May the scholarship presented, conversations shared, and fellowship enjoyed all serve the church and glorify Christ.

Index of Book Reviews in JETS 68.2

"Faithful retrieval involves not only affirmation, but disagreement and creative repurposing to fight the relevant battles of one’s day. Calvin did not simply restate Augustine’s views but utilized them for Reformation-era debates." (JETS 68.2)

"Looking at 2 Timothy with Deuteronomy’s teachings, problems, & arguments in mind shows a mosaic of Mosaic allusion in Paul’s exhortation for Timothy to guard the good deposit...The Mosaic allusions pulse throughout Paul’s exhortations to Timothy from the very start." (JETS 68.2)

"Through the enumeration and categorization of such interpretive questions, the article will provide a useful heuristic framework facilitating more satisfactory interpretive results." (JETS 68.2)

"Overall, this study has indicated that a memory approach is a valuable tool in examining Jesus’s resurrection as it sheds light on the historical value of a particular source and more elaborately develops each alternative hypothesis for Jesus’s resurrection." (JETS 68.2)