A well-aimed swipe - 7 November 2011 |
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Prof Kenneth A. Kitchen takes a well-aimed swipe at some of the follies of liberal Old Testament scholarship in his article “The Factual Reliability of the Old Testament,” online at Theology Network.
Here’s the conclusion of the article:
It must be emphasised that old-style Old Testament studies have never caught up with today’s transformed state of information on the Hebrew Bible in its Near-Eastern context; they still carry outdated 19th-century theoretical ‘excess baggage’. Modern agendas of post-modernist type are wholly irrelevant. Careful systematic study of original source-materials in their proper phases and settings and comparing results critically with the existing Old Testament text indicates increasingly that the biblical writers knew what they were talking about – and left us reliable information. Our modern ideas often stand in more need of correction than their text!
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