Canon as Rule and Guide

Collected Essays

by Brevard S. Childs, edited by Daniel R. Driver

Book cover: Canon as Rule and Guide

Extent: 610 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Series volume number: 174

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2023)

ISBN: 9783161593451

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $224.00

In stock

Penned by Brevard S. Childs, the fifty-two essays collected here span half a century of biblical scholarship. They provide a view into the history of Old Testament studies by a scholar who worked to integrate his command of it with cognate disciplines such as New Testament, Biblical Theology, and the history of interpretation.


The fifty-two essays collected here span half a century of biblical scholarship. Together they provide a view into the history of Old Testament studies from the vantage of a scholar who worked to integrate his command of it with several cognate disciplines, including New Testament, Biblical Theology, and the history of interpretation. Canon is a rule and guide: this is a ubiquitous concern in the work of Brevard Childs. As he argues, scripture has been shaped with frameworks for interpretation, guidelines built into it through a complex editorial process that resulted in a multifaceted canon with two Testaments. Scripture is a canon and rule of faith that in turn shapes the church’s confession and life of faith. This approach to scripture entails a holistic view that touches the Bible’s composition and reception histories as well as its enduring claim on living communities of faith.

  • By (author) Brevard S Childs
  • Edited by Daniel R Driver