1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $ 34.99 He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says a political philosopher who
follows biblical scholarship.
Not exact matches
Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern
biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who
follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.
Nor did he spend time refuting a view of the Bible that he,
following the weight of
biblical scholarship, considered to have been discredited long ago.
Usually Jenny Lawson breaks the ice with a bizarre, profanity - laced story about a mummified bat (or peasant or ferret); then Scot McKnight jumps in with his thoughts on the latest
biblical scholarship,
followed by an update from NPR on today's news.