do not discourage their faculty from having a critical view of important elements of the document. With reference to the opening dialogue above about the authorship of Isaiah, let us look at part of Article XVIII of the Chicago Statement: WE DENY the legitimacy of any treatment of the text … that leads to … rejecting its claims to authorship. Yet, as we will see, a variety of evangelical scholars do not believe that a biblical book’s claim of authorship necessarily represents the true past historical