Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Freedom of God's word : toward an "evangelical" dogmatics of Scripture / Daniel J. Treier -- "In many and various ways" : hearing the voice of God in the text of Scripture / Stephen E. Fowl -- Hearing God speak from The First Testament / John Goldingay -- The voice of God in Israel's wisdom literature / Amy Plantinga Pauw -- That was then, this is now : reading Hebrews retroactively / Myk Habets -- Paths beyond tracing out : the hermeneutics of metaphor and theological method / Erin M. Heim -- The voice of God in historical Biblical criticism / Jason McMartin ; Timothy H. Pckavance -- Post(modern) Biblical historiography : an interim report from the front lines / William J. Abraham -- Reading Scripture in our context : double particularity in Karl Barth's actualistic view of Scripture / Daniel D. Lee -- "For the love of God" : Scripture and the formation of human identity / Ryan S. Peterson.

Scholars from biblical studies and theology have recently been engaged in various ways in the project of theological interpretation of Scripture. This literature has raised issues about the theological content of the biblical material, authorial intention, the reception and formation of the Bible as Christian Scripture, the importance of the canonical form of the text, and the relationship between Scripture and the Rule of Faith. With this recent interdisciplinary debate in mind, the fourth annual Los Angeles Theology Conference focuses on the theological and doctrinal dimensions to the biblical texts drawing on scholars of biblical studies and theology in order to do so. The question that frames it is, "How does the voice of God come to us in the text of Scripture?"