Sentences with phrase «professional biblical scholarship»

In this respect, his approach is very different from that of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, who deprecates what he calls the excavative techniques of professional biblical scholarship and works with the text as it is, in its final form.

As professional biblical scholarship stands now, few would argue that the gospel accounts are 100 % accurate, and that nothing was borrowed from other faiths and mythologies.

Not exact matches

It has emerged in part as a way for the guild of biblical scholarship to respond to a number of stimuli: (1) the increasing charges by many theologians, lay and professional, that biblical criticism has...