Unlike Any Other Book

by Hans Boersma

In some ways, we do read the Bible like any other book. But this observation comes after the recognition of God’s providential economy in Christ.  Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2021

Ehrman Errant

by Louis Markos

I feel great pity for Bart Ehrman. It appears that the kind of fundamentalism in which the Christian believer turned biblical debunker was raised did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in college. He was taught, rightly, that there are no contradictions in the Bible, but he was trained, quite falsely, to interpret the non-contradictory nature of the Bible in modern, scientific, post-Enlightenment terms. That is to say, he was encouraged to test the truth of the Bible against a verification system that has only existed for some 250 years. Continue Reading »

28 Oct 2014

The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism

by Jon D. Levenson

Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with which the practitioner of the critical study of the Bible inevitably deals. Reading applications for the doctoral program whose faculty I had only recently joined, I was struck by the frequency on the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1993