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By John H. Walton,Brent Sandy

ISBN-10: 083084032X

ISBN-13: 9780830840328

2014 Readers' selection Awards Honorable Mention

Preaching's Preacher's advisor to the simplest Bible Reference for 2014 (Scripture/Hermeneutics)

From John H. Walton, writer of the bestselling Lost global of Genesis One, and D. Brent Sandy, writer of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a close examine the origins of scriptural authority in historic oral cultures and the way they tell our realizing of the previous and New Testaments today.

Stemming from questions about scriptural inerrancy, proposal and oral transmission of principles, The misplaced global of Scripture examines the method during which the Bible has turn out to be what it really is this present day. From the explanations why particular phrases have been used to express definite principles to how oral culture impacted the transmission of biblical texts, the authors search to discover how those concerns may well impact our present doctrine at the authority of Scripture.

"In this ebook we're exploring methods God selected to bare his be aware in mild of discoveries approximately historical literary culture," write Walton and Sandy. "Our particular goal is to appreciate larger how either the previous and New Testaments have been spoken, written and handed on, in particular with an eye fixed to attainable implications for the Bibles suggestion and authority."

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