MSH | February 15, 2013
The Bible Places Blog (BPB) draws our attention to a new book edited by James K. Hoffmeier and Dennis R. Magary entitled, Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?: A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture. It looks like a quality resource. It’s focus is on how biblical historicity matters for inspiration and [...]
MSH | June 30, 2011
I was recently received a question about inerrancy from a student in my MEMRA institute. Readers here know I’ve spent a lot of time on that subject (see the archived page). My short answer was that the difficulty in talking about inerrancy and errancy is defining what constitutes an error. That is in the eye [...]
MSH | February 10, 2010
I had occasion to send this file to someone by email who asked whether or not NT writers used Second Temple Jewish interpretive methods when handling the OT. They do. We’ve talked about this subject a couple of times before, so I thought you’d be interested in the sampling from Steven Moyise’s excellent book on [...]
MSH | February 2, 2010
This of course resonates with me in light of our lengthy discussion of the need for a better articulation of inspiration and inerrancy. Technorati Tags: inerrancy, inspiration, Peter Enns
MSH | January 15, 2010
Naked Bible readers will remember I got into this issue several times during the discussion on inerrancy. It’s current again for me for two reasons. One is N.T. Wright has chimed in on the subject in this video, which I offer for the curious (I’m not inclined to care what Wright says on this subject [...]
