Book Review: Shechem to Calvary

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I just read Rod McQueen's first book, "Shechem to Calvary" and can heartily recommend it. He does a masterful job of expounding the various covenants that form a spine running through the Jewish and Christian writings. The writing is fresh and energetic and full of persuasive and insightful arguments and teaching. It is profound and broad in scope.

Oddly, though, he ends up wrangling the text to attempt to show that the "law of Moses" is and always has been the universal law of God, just as binding on Christians as it ever was on Jews. Leaving his solid exegetical methods, he suddenly sinks to employ specious methods:

* employing phony translation
* ignoring completely large passages of the NT
* appealing to "back-translated" passages of the OT (more on this in an upcoming post)
* selectively having "law" refer to the "covenant" independent of its terms

So the readers of this book will, as always, have to enjoy the meat and spit out the bones.

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I hope very much to interact with Rod concerning what I see as **huge** errors and false presuppositions in this book, that, cumulatively render this book as ultimately a house of cards, while at the same time, contributing many rich and deep insights into the covenants.

None of Rod's books are available for sale yet.

Bill Ross