Scott Hahn

• Franciscan University of Steubenville

The amount of biblical scholarship on covenant over the past decade is not great; however, significant work on the definition and taxonomy of covenant has helped to overcome certain reductionistic tendencies of older scholarship, which has contributed, in turn, to a better grasp of the canonical function of the term in the Old and New Testaments. I...

Drawing from D. J. McCarthy's findings on the family-properties of covenants, Part One analyzes various OT covenants between God and his people in terms of the father-son relationship as a basic interpretive category. Three covenant-types are differentiated (kinship, treaty, grant) by distinguishing which party swears the oath (both, vassal, suzera...