“What have you been up to lately?” “What are you currently working on?” These are questions I am sometimes asked. Since you asked, here’s my answer.

Just out is Vol. 12 in the revised Expositor’s Bible Commentary (ed. Tremper Longman and David Garland), which includes my commentary on 1–2 Timothy and Titus on pp. 488–625.

A few years ago, I participated in a conference on the use of the OT in the NT at McMaster Divinity School in Hamilton, ON. The conference papers have now been published in a revised format in Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament (ed. Stanley E. Porter; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006). Contributors include Stanley Porter, Dennis Stamps, Timothy McLay, Michael Knowles, Craig Evans, Paul Miller, James Aageson, Sylvia Keesmaat, Kurt Richardson, and myself. My essays, “The Use of Scripture in the Pastoral and General Epistles and the Book of Revelation” and “Hearing the Old Testament in the New: A Response,” are found on pp. 230–54 and 255–94, respectively. The book gathers essays on the use of the OT and in the NT related to rhetoric, the LXX, and each of the NT books. It would make a fine text for classes on the use of the OT in the NT.

Speaking of the use of the OT in the NT, a major forthcoming reference work is a work co-edited by D. A. Carson and G. K. Beale, Commentary on the Use of the Old Testament in the New (Grand Rapids: Baker). This new reference work will be presented in commentary format from Matthew to Revelation, commenting on all significant instances of the use of the OT in the NT. Contributors include Eckhard Schnabel, Douglas Moo, Rikki Watts, the editors, and myself (on John’s Gospel). The book is scheduled to be released by the Annual ETS Meeting in November 2007.

While still on this topic, I also wrote the entry on “Testament Relationships” for the forthcoming Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (ed. Stanley E. Porter), which is to be released in the next few months.

Another forthcoming publication is the essay on “Baptism in the Gospels” in Believer’s Baptism: The Covenant Sign of the New Age in Christ (ed. Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright; Nashville: B & H). Ardel Caneday, Mark Dever, Duane Garrett, Steven McKinion, Jonathan Rainbow, Thomas R. Schreiner, Robert H. Stein, Stephen Wellum, Shawn D. Wright, and myself. The book will provide a comprehensive treatment of baptism in biblical studies, church history, and systematic theology and is due out in January 2007.

Finally, the next issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Research 16/2 (2006) will feature the second part in my two-part series on tithing (co-authored with David A. Croteau), “Reconstructing a Biblical Model for Giving: A Discussion of Relevant Systematic Issues and New Testament Principles.”

Thanks for your interest. Now it’s time to get back to work . . .

by Andreas Köstenberger - September 15th, 2006.
Filed under: Bible, Theology.