Sentences with phrase «leading biblical scholars»
Elaine Pagels, one of the world's leading biblical scholars, first read Revelation as a teenager.
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(In fact, when I was about 9 or 10, I dreamt of compiling a commentary on the Bible called «The World Commentary» which was written by leading biblical scholars from around the world.
Formerly the Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and now the Distinguished Professor of Hebrew Bible Emeritus at Vanderbilt Divinity School, James Barr is surely one of the leading biblical scholars of the twentieth century.
It is very simple — you apply the same logic to every other god like Allah etc but refuse to apply the same logic to yours... which in turn makes you an atheist towards Allah... but since you make a exception for Jesus (I should also tell you to read some of Prof Bart Erhman — leading biblical scholar) this already makes your stance contradictory.
Not exact matches
ii) here's one of the leading literary myth scholars of the last century giving a technical essay to biblical scholars on why (even if purely from a literary perspective) claiming Jesus is a myth fails to understand what a myth is.
For example, when Berger points out that the puzzles of historical scholarship often lead Biblical theologians to crises of faith he expresses it this way: «I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.»
His apparent lack of theological formation leads him, in his chapter on evolutionary psychology, to follow the «many» biblical scholars who «do not believe that humans were [originally] created without sin» (p. 122, a case of the blind leading the blind, perhaps?).
It was in no small degree the desire to find corroboration for the Biblical narrative that led scholars to carry on their excavations in the Near East.
These and other similar facts lead most biblical scholars to say that Matthew, who likes to organize his materials topically, gives us more than a single sermon.