Sublime

Until the seventeenth century, the prevailing view of the Old Testament among both Jews and Christians was relatively simple: it was the word of God. Its human authors were in effect scribes or secretaries, writing down what God dictated to them. In a circular argument, this view was supported by the Bible itself.

B. B. Warfield’s

There is yet a middle usage of the term kurios in the New Testament. It is used to describe a slave owner, which is an apt description of Jesus, and it is from this that Paul describes himself. He is not just a servant but a slave.

This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.

By using methods of source criticism we can isolate materials common to particular writers.

my basic theological perspective—that the God of biblical faith and black religion is partial toward the weak.

We have nearly 30,000 New Testament manuscripts in various languages (versions). Of these, more than 5,800 are in the Greek language, with the oldest verified copy (fragment) of a New Testament document from the Gospel of John, with a gap of fewer than 50 years from the original composition.3 No other ancient text comes close to the quantity or ear

The beauty of the traditional threefold division lies only in the eye of the beholder, not in the biblical text.

Exploring this issue really involves asking two questions: (1) Why were all of these sources retained, rather than just retaining the latest or most authoritative one? (2) Why were they combined in this odd way, rather than being left as complete documents that would be read side by side, much like the model of the four…

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