The Bible as Word of God: In a Postmodern Age

Terence E. Fretheim is Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. His books include The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective (Overtures to Biblical Theology: Fortress Press, (1984), The Message of Jonah: A Theological Commentary (previously published by Augsburg, 1977, now published by Wipf and Stock Publishers), Exodus (Westminster/John Knox: 1991), The Pentateuch (Abingdon Press: 1996), About the Bible: Short answers to Big Questions (Augsburg: 1999); A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament (with B. Birch, W. Brueggemann, and David Petersen; Abingdon, 1999); Jeremiah (forthcoming from Smyth and Helwys, 2002).

Karlfried Froehlich is Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Emeritus, at Princeton Theological Seminary. His publications include Understanding the New Testament (with H.C. Kee and F.W. Young, 1965 and 1973), Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church (Sources of Early Christian Thought Series; Fortress Press, 1984), and an edition of the Standard Glossed Bible of the Middle Ages (4 volumes, 1992).