"The heavens declare the glory of God": The limits of general revelation

Trinity Journal, Spring 2000 by Hoffmeier, James K

'For some recent treatments of Romans 1 and general revelation, cf. Thomas C. Oden, "Without Excuse: Classic Christian Exegesis of General Revelation," JETS 41 /1 (1998): 55-68; Dennis Johnson, "Between Two Wor(l)ds: Worldview and Observation I: The Use of General Revelation to Interpret Scripture, and Vice Versa," JETS 41 /1 (1998): 69-84.

(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), 233-34.

3(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), 78-80, cf. chap. 3.

4Ibid., 24.

5Ibid., 79.

6Reflections on the Psalms, 63.

'A. A. Anderson, Psalms (1-72) (NCBC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972), 168-73; Willem A. VanGemeren, Psalms (Expositor's Bible Commentary; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1991), 178-84; and Derek Kidner, Psalms 1-72 (TOTC; Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1972), 97-100.

IP. C. Craigie, Psalms 1-50 (WBC; Waco: Word, 1983), 179-80; M. Dahood, Psalms 1-50 AB; Garden City: Doubleday, 1965),121.

. S. Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part 1: Forms of the Old Testament Literature XIV (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988),101-3.

1Craigie, Psalms 1-50,179. lIbid.

12Gerstenberger, Psalms; Anderson, Psalms, 167; J. Morgenstern, "Psalm 8 and 19A," Hebrew Union College Annual 19 (1945-46): 515.

13Gerstenberger, Psalms; Craigie, Psalms 1-50.

iaJ. W. Rogerson and J. W. McKay, Psalms 1-50 (CBC; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 86.

isVan Gemeren, Psalms, 179. 61bid., 179 n. 5.

17"Names of God in the OT," ABD 4:1006. 18TWOT 426-28.

19Walther Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament (2 vols.; Philadelphia: Westminster,196*, 2:30.

2%bid.

2IGerhard Von Rad, Old Testament Theology (2 vols.; San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1962),1:239.

Craigie, Psalms 1-50, 180.

Commentary on the Book of Psalms (trans. James Anderson; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948),1:317.

24Ibid., 1:181.

25C. J. H. Wright, "God, Names of," ISBE 2:507.

26Kidner, Psalms, 99. 27Anderson, Psalms, 171.

28Rogerson and McKay, Psalms, 88; Van Gemeren, Psalms, 184; and D. J. A. Clines, "The Tree of Knowledge and the Law of the Lord," VT 24 (1974): 8-14.

Clines, "The Tree of Knowledge," 8.

3Leslie Allen, "David as Exemplar of Spirituality: The Redactional Function of Psalm 19," Bib 67 (1986): 544-46.

31Clines, "The Tree of Knowledge," 12-13.

32Derek Kidner, Genesis (TOTC; Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1967), 70. 33VanGemeren, Psalms, 181.

JAMES K. HOFFMEIER'

.James K. Hoffmeier is Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois.