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G. Sujin Pak , The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms , Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York : OUP , 2009), pp. xi+216. £40.00/$65.00 (hbk).
The title of this book is taken from the 1593 work of the Lutheran, Aegidius Hunnius, which accuses Calvin of 'judaising' in his interpretation of the messianic psalms. Sujin Pak examines this charge in a wide-ranging study, focusing on eight messianic psalms which are referred to Christ in the New Testament: Psalms 2, 8, 16, 22, 45, 72, 110, 188. The book is less exclusively on Calvin than the title suggests, with chapters on medieval exegesis, Luther, Bucer and the debate between Hunnius and Pareus, as well as on Calvin himself. Yet Calvin lies at the heart in that the whole book is assessing his place in the history of exegesis, which it does in a very competent and readable way.
The final chapter sets out the late sixteenth-century debate between Hunnius and the Reformed theologian David Pareus. Hunnius attacked Calvin for his departure from established tradition by...