CONTENTS

HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
-Problems with the Patriarchs: John Calvin's Interpretation of Difficult Passages in Genesis / SCOTT M. MANETSCH
-Re-Thinking the Ethics of Parsimony, Part One: On Not Cheating Contingency / MICHAEL W. PAYNE
-"Arminius avant la lettre": Peter Baro, Jacob Arminius, and the Bond of Predestinarian Polemic / KEITH D. STANGLIN
-Time, the "Open Acquittal," and Divine Omniscience: Two Internal Problems with Open Theism / MARK RUSSELL CUTHBERTSON
-Context and Concept: Contextual Theology and the Nature of Theological Discourse / MARC CORTEZ.

BIBLICAL STUDIES
-Ishmael's Assassination of Gedaliah: Echoes of the Saul-David Story in Jeremiah 40:7-41:18 / GARY E. YATES.
-The Formation of the Gospels in the Setting of Early Christianity: The Jesus Tradition as Corporate Memory / MICHAEL. F. BIRD
-"Evil Beasts, Lazy Gluttons": A Neglected Theme in the Epistle to Titus / RIEMER FABER
-2 Corinthians 6:2: Paul's Eschatological "Now" and Hermeneutical Invitation / MARK GIGNILLIAT

BIBLICAL STUDIES
-Truth and Fullness of Meaning: Fullness versus Reductionistic Semantics in Biblical Interpretation / VERN SHERIDAN POYTHRESS
-Examining the Narratives of Old Testament Narrative: An Exploration in Biblical Theology / PAUL R. HOUSE
-Receiving Christ's Priestly Benediction: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Exploration of Luke 24:50-53 / KELLY M. KAPIC

HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
-Natural Law and the Noetic Effects of Sin: The Faculty of Reason in Francis Turretin's Theological Anthropology / STEPHEN J. GRABILL.
-The Trinity, Adiaphora, Ecclesiology, and Reformation: John Owen's Theory of Religious Toleration Context / PAUL LIM
-Theologically United and Divided: The Political Covenantalism of Samuel Rutherford and John Milton / ANDRIES RAATH and SHAUN DE FREITAS
-Re-Thinking the Ethics of Parsimony, Part Two: "Cultivated Deviance" (or Not Cheating Contingency) / MICHAEL W. PAYNE.
-Creation and Context: A Theological Framework for Contextual Theology / MARC CORTEZ.
-Covenantal Worship: Reconsidering the Critics / R. J. GORE, JR.