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Title: Scratching my head...
Review: In short compass, this may be one of the best books to read if one wants to familiarize themselves with the main arguments more "liberal" scholars give for their understanding of Scripture. I found Placher's chapter most helpful, followed by Brueggemann, with Blount in a distant third.All of the authors seem to believe that the Bible is unique and authoritative. This strikes me as a rather odd conclusion considering these authors find many things in Scripture to be culturally bound and therefore no longer relevant for the church today. One is left wondering how any major doctrine of the Christian faith can survive. Is it not possible that "backward" disciples desperately desired a God-figure and so divinized Jesus to meet that need? I think that is a ludicrous position, but I don't know how these authors could argue against it given their assumptions about the captivity of the Bible to all kinds of cultural bias.
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