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Dr. Alan Bandy, Rowena R. Strickland associate professor of New Testament, co-authored the book, \u201cUnderstanding Prophecy: A Biblical-Theological Approach.\u201d<\/p>\nDr. Alan Bandy, Rowena R. Strickland associate professor of New Testament, co-authored the book, \u201cUnderstanding Prophecy: A Biblical-Theological Approach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bandy was inspired to write\u00a0the book while having a conversation over lunch with co-author, Dr. Benjamin Merkle, professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were talking about how there is an abundance of books on prophecy, but most of them take scripture out of context,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Both professors have written essays on New Testament prophecy and decided to develop a book to address some issues more extensively.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to write a book\u00a0about the nature and interpretation of biblical prophecy that is accurate, contextual and Christocentric, yet theologically robust,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bandy hopes the book will help readers learn to read prophecy in its proper place within the story of the Bible.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost books about prophecy tend to focus on reading prophecy in light of current events,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of them, in my opinion, take scriptures out of context to apply them as proof-texts to prove a point or eschatological system. We believe that prophecy should be read in light of the entire message of the Bible. Prophecy, when read with historical, literary and theological sensitivity, will point to Jesus, the Messiah, in terms of his first advent in humility and to his glorious return in power and authority over all creation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Alan Bandy, Rowena R. Strickland associate professor of New Testament, co-authored the book, \u201cUnderstanding Prophecy: A Biblical-Theological Approach.\u201d Bandy was inspired to write\u00a0the book while having a conversation over lunch with co-author, Dr. Benjamin Merkle, professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. \u201cWe were talking about how there is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":""},"categories":[84,111],"tags":[146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Dr.-Alan-Bandys-book-Understanding-Prophecy-Cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMz3-w4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}