Brian J Tabb
I serve as Academic Dean and Professor of Biblical Studies at Bethlehem College and Seminary. I also serve as General Editor for the theological journal Themelios.
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720 13th Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55415
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In After Emmaus, Brian J. Tabb uses Luke 24:46–47 as a springboard to answer the question: Did the Old Testament simply point to Christ and his coming as Messiah, or is there more to the story? Laying the foundation with the books of Luke and Acts, Tabb encourages readers to study their Bibles with greater attentiveness to discover how the story of redemption foretold in the Old Testament is fulfilled in Christ, is reflected in the apostles’ ministry, and continues today through the mission of the church.
Strikingly, all three of the authors affirm that suffering is not humanity's fundamental problem and it instead functions as a cipher for other things to be displayed. For Seneca, this means an opportunity for the sufferer to show virtue. For Luke and the author of 4 Maccabees this means suffering as an indication of the world's brokenness due to sin, which can then play a role in salvation. Luke presents the creator and covenant God of Israel acting through his suffering to accomplish salvation and restoration for the world marred by sin and suffering.
The letters to Timothy and Titus are among Paul's most personal and practical epistles. The apostle writes to instruct these younger men in the importance of sound doctrine and to urge them to rebuke false teaching. This accessible study shows how Paul's letters exhort all Christians to protect and pass on the true gospel of Jesus Christ, which has the power to save and transform sinners.
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by revealing the decisive, eschatological meaning of these earlier texts, while the OT likewise offers the categories necessary to disclose the true significance of his
identity as the rejected, crucified Messiah.
In After Emmaus, Brian J. Tabb uses Luke 24:46–47 as a springboard to answer the question: Did the Old Testament simply point to Christ and his coming as Messiah, or is there more to the story? Laying the foundation with the books of Luke and Acts, Tabb encourages readers to study their Bibles with greater attentiveness to discover how the story of redemption foretold in the Old Testament is fulfilled in Christ, is reflected in the apostles’ ministry, and continues today through the mission of the church.
Strikingly, all three of the authors affirm that suffering is not humanity's fundamental problem and it instead functions as a cipher for other things to be displayed. For Seneca, this means an opportunity for the sufferer to show virtue. For Luke and the author of 4 Maccabees this means suffering as an indication of the world's brokenness due to sin, which can then play a role in salvation. Luke presents the creator and covenant God of Israel acting through his suffering to accomplish salvation and restoration for the world marred by sin and suffering.
The letters to Timothy and Titus are among Paul's most personal and practical epistles. The apostle writes to instruct these younger men in the importance of sound doctrine and to urge them to rebuke false teaching. This accessible study shows how Paul's letters exhort all Christians to protect and pass on the true gospel of Jesus Christ, which has the power to save and transform sinners.
by revealing the decisive, eschatological meaning of these earlier texts, while the OT likewise offers the categories necessary to disclose the true significance of his
identity as the rejected, crucified Messiah.
This paper will explore how suffering functions in the worldviews of the Roman Stoic Seneca, the Jewish author of 4 Maccabees, and the Christian historian Luke, three prominent first-century authors who have not previously been compared in any detail. We will offer an imagined conversation between these three men about the nature of suffering, which is written after the style of Cicero’s classic comparative study On the Nature of the Gods. Our hope is that this unique approach will creatively illustrate early Christian engagement with other worldviews.
We will see that each of these three authors expects and accepts suffering as a present reality governed by God’s sovereign purposes, however defined. Each affirms that suffering is not humanity’s fundamental problem. For Seneca, suffering is “indifferent,” neither good nor bad, but an opportunity to learn and display virtue. For Luke and the author of 4 Maccabees, suffering is an expression of the world’s brokenness due to sin and plays a role in salvation. Seneca presents a philosophical, educational perspective on human suffering; the author of 4 Maccabees espouses a covenantal, pedagogical view of Jewish suffering; and Luke offers a christological, missiological assessment of Christian suffering. Luke presents the Creator and covenant God of Israel acting through his suffering and exalted Son and his suffering, Spirit-empowered witnesses to accomplish salvation and restoration for the world marred by sin and suffering.