This collection of essays honours Kevin J. Vanhoozer by representing the current state of evangelical hermeneutics in light of his work. The volume consists of three parts: The Biblical Script, Great Performances, and Theodrama Today. Each part contains wide-ranging contributions from well-known scholars, who address important topics for contemporary hermeneutics in dialogue with Vanhoozer's influential work.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer is today's leading evangelical theologian of biblical interpretation. He is one of the most influential voices in contemporary hermeneutics, and in academic theology he is one of his generation's most influential evangelicals.

Daniel J. Treier is Knoedler Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, USA.

Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, USA.

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction: Evangelical Hermeneutics in Dialogue with Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Daniel J. Treier


PART I: The Biblical Script
1. Will the Goof Prevail? The Hermeneutics of Textual Criticism
Iain Provan
2. Reading Between the Lines: On Discerning the Implicit Messages of Scripture
V. Philips Long
3. New Testament Quotations of the Old as Divine Speech Acts
Karen H. Jobes
4. Reading John's Gospel as a Theodramatic Preview of Coming Attractions
Robert H. Gundry
5. The Great Antagonist
Graham A. Cole
6. Martyrdom: Martin Albertz's Neglected New Testament Theology and the Importance of a Theological Category
Robert W. Yarbrough

PART II: Great Performances
7. The Spirit in Biblical Interpretation: Basil of Caesarea and Modern Discussion of Meaning and Significance
Darren Sarisky
8. Augustine and Scripture
Gregory W. Lee
9. Thomas Aquinas and the Book of Jeremiah
Matthew Levering
10. John Calvin and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Scott M. Manetsch
11. "The Whole Scope and Tenor of Scripture": Hermeneutics, Wholeness, and Holiness in Wesleyan Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Thomas McCall
12. "Fantastic!" Karl Barth, American Evangelicals, and the Strange New World of Theology
Stephen M. Garrett

PART III: Theodrama Today
13. Baptized Biblical Interpretation: The Place and Function of the Creed
Scott R. Swain
14. The Triune God
Michael Allen
15. How God Does Things with Words in the Church
Michael Horton
16. The Drama of (Imputation) Doctrine: Original Guilt as Biblical and Systematic Theology
Hans Madueme
17. "Born of Water and the Spirit": Divine Agency in Interpretations of John 3 and Acts 10
Elizabeth Y. Sung
18. Scripture in Sound
Jeremy Begbie
Conclusion
Douglas A. Sweeney

Bibliography
Index