RT Article
T1 The Idiom of Scripture, Leviticus 18:5, and Theology at a Time of Paradigm Shift
JF Biblical theology bulletin
VO 47
IS 3
SP 155
OP 170
A1 Johnson, Merwyn Stratford 1938-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1759877972
AB Leviticus 18:5b (the one doing them shall live in them) offers a prism through which to view the idiom of Scripture—the distinctive dynamics and theology of the Bible. The verse pinpoints the interplay between God's doing-and-living and ours. At issue is whether the commandments reflect a “command-and-do” structure of life with God, which maximizes a quid pro quo dynamic between God and us; or do the commandments delineate a “covenant place where” we abide with God and God with us, as a gift of shared doing pure and simple? The article traces Leviticus 18:5b through both Old and New Testaments, to show how pervasive it is. The main post-World War II English translations misstate the verse at every turn, in contrast to the 16th-century Church Reformation, which understood the verse and the issue under the topic of Law and Gospel.
K1 Bible translations
K1 Hebrew verb tenses
K1 Law And Gospel
K1 Leviticus 18:5
K1 command-and-do
K1 covenant-place-where
K1 idiom of scripture
K1 Paradigm Shift
DO 10.1177/0146107917715588