I have been putting a fair amount of thought into my journey through the Bible in 2010. Last year was the first time in my life where I have read through the whole of the Bible.
Now, I find that I desire to go again, but would far rather have a learned guide.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I was considering Horatius Bonar's Light and Truth, but it seems that the path of the biblical theologian might be a better first journey.
As I have been giving consideration to biblical theologians, Geerhardus Vos' Biblical Theology: Old and New Testament keeps coming into my view.
Here is a quote I found from Google Books:
"The aim of this book is no less than to provide an account of the unfolding of the mind of God in history, through the successive agents of his special revelation. Vos handles this under three main divisions: the Mosaic epoch of revelation, the prophetic epoch of revelation, and the New Testament.Such an historical approach is not meant to supplant the work of the systematic theologian; nevertheless, the Christian gospel is inextricably bound up with history, and the biblical theologian thus seeks to highlight uniqueness of each biblical document in that succession. The rich variety of Scripture is discovered anew as the progressive development of biblical themes is explicated.To read these pages--the fruit of Vos' 39 years of teaching biblical theology at Princeton - is to appreciate the late John Murray's suggestion that Geerhardus Vos was the most incisive exegete in the English-speaking world of the twentieth century."
Have you read Geerhardus Vos' Biblical Theology: Old and New Testament? Might it be a worthy guide through the Bible for 2010?
