Book Notice: The Authority of the Septuagint

Over at his blog, Will Ross has an announcement about his new book with Greg Lanier titled The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Approaches. Here’s Will’s explanation for the book:

This project is unique in a few ways. First of all, this book targets the issue highlighted in its title, namely probing whether and how “the Septuagint” has authority as a text. That is a loaded question, of course. In one sense, the answer is obviously no. Yet there are ways in which it is a little less obvious, especially when it comes to New Testament authors citing Septuagint-like texts in their writing. Greg and I addressed this issue in part in our book The Septuagint: What It Is and Why It Matters (Crossway), but this book takes things further.

Another unique aspect is that this is an edited volume. Greg and I each have chapters in the book, which cover relevant issues in the Old Testament canon and the text, respectively. But we also have a number of other scholars from neighboring disciplines who contributed chapters. These include perspectives from New Testament scholarship, Patristics, Reformation thought, and Protestant and Catholic dogmatic theology. We also have one or two shorter “excursus” chapters that address semi-hot-button/inside baseball issues like the “pure in all ages” clause in WCF 1.8 and so-called confessional bibliology.

This is one you won’t want to miss. Here’s the TOC. I am particularly interested in the chapters by Berntson and Fesko.

1 Introduction
Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross 

2 The Question of Old Testament Canon
Gregory R. Lanier 

3 The Question of the Old Testament Text
William A. Ross 

4 A New Testament Approach
Thomas Keene 

5 A Patristic-Historical Approach
Edmon L. Gallagher 

6 A Reformation-Historical Approach
Levi Berntson 

Excursus: “Kept Pure in All Ages”?
J. V. Fesko 

7 A Systematic-Theological Approach
Daniel J. Treier and Joshua McQuaid 

Excursus: The Septuagint and Confessional Bibliology
Mark Ward 

8 A Roman Catholic Approach
James B. Prothro 

9 Synthesis: The Septuagint and Authority
Myrto Theocharous 

Afterword
Karen H. Jobes 

You can read an excerpt here.