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Again, comparing OT w/ the NT. You are making a comparison of Moses that is completely impossible on the human level (don't forget the Bible is a human product as much as it is a divine one; much like the hypostatic union). I am not saying Moses edited himself, although I'm sure he did. He...

You are doing exactly as I have been saying. You are comparing the OT formation and composition to the NT. Even your concept of a closed canon is based largely on the NT ideal. What is to say that redaction didn't take place after Malachi under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit? B/c it...

Why not??? Part of what makes obvious linguistic allusions to older OT texts is the probable likelihood that a redactor had the text in front of him and matched it (not in every case, but in some). So Exodus allusions in Judges to 1 Samuel could be part of the product of a later redactor...

Ezra was probably one of the redactors. In fact, he might have been the final compiler of the TaNaKh

I'm not sure that Χριστος has that connotation in mind, not totally anyhow. I'm referring to an actual translation philosophy where we take the term Χριστος and either translate its meaning (denotative or connotative) or transliterate it ("Christ"). Anything outside of that is a completely...

I think that is largely b/c we have such a NT understanding of the way the OT was compiled, redacted, and theologically arranged. We think the product we refer to as "Genesis" we now have was what Moses penned in the same way Paul penned (through an amanuensis) Romans - an instant final form...

Which of the many Sailhamer book are you talking about??? Have you read him?

I like how a growing stream of evangelical thinkers are moving towards a compositional/canonical understanding of inspiration. Thank you, John Sailhamer (or should I credit Brevard Childs???).

You missed my point. I said that the apostles had as their foundational confession that Jesus is Messiah as stated in the NT. Thus they called him often Jesus Christ or however you want to render it. The foundation of the church is his messiahship. N. T. Wright argues, and I agree w/ him...

I see how changed tactics. Interesting. Instead of arguing that literal (for you means denotative) meaning, you now are arguing for the more familiar term? Translators deal w/ issues like this a lot. Words for animals that certain people groups have no knowledge of (or even a word for) are a...

Who says the connotative meaning isn't the literal meaning? I.e. who says literal meaning equals denotative meaning?

One might argue that reading "all kinds of authors" does NOT makes the education thorough or academic. For my OT intro's, I only had 1 textbook (Hill & Walton's). For NT intro's, I only had 1 textbook (Carson & Moo; though I also read Kohstenberger et al's text as well). So I'm not sure that...

Even if the SBC re-branded??? I really posed this just so I could quote Reid suggesting Southeastern Baptist Convention so we could be THE Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. :D

So if the SBC is re-branded, do you think that any of the 6 seminaries will change their name? Only SBTS is not named after a region, so they would be the most likely. But what if the SBC changed its name to the Great Commission Baptist Convention or Evangelical Baptist Convention (what I...

Most of the encouragement has been for you to admit that you were wrong and falsely accusing someone of doctrinal error where there was no error... something we all have a difficult time doing. I wonder, would you prefer to call Jesus "father"???

Probably the intended audience will determine much of that. I'm surprised the books you listed ended up in seminary classrooms, unless there were many others to go with them. Another criteria is if the book was intended to be a textbook. None seem to fist your list that I noticed. They are...

But is it really an error to call Jesus our brother??? If we have the same Father, doesn't that even imply brotherhood??? Heb. 2:11 is pretty clear: "For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers," The "he" in the...

But I am not arguing that a better known term is helpful here. I would actually say that a lesser known term might help the reader to see the full import of Jesus' title as Messiah. And consider that the ISV thought the same thing:

Are you actually asking for my view? I've already derailed this thread enough. If you want to talk about canonical theology and a compilation view of the OT, then we can start a separate thread.

To answer the OP question (a bit different than the one asked in the post): he IS a good systematician b/c he is such a good philosopher. But I find many of his views lacking. And even though his Syst Theo is 4 volumes, it is still closer to the lay level than upper academic. I will say...