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Biblical Knowing: A Scriptural Epistemology of Error is unavailable, but you can change that!

Through themes like the knowledge of good and evil, knowing God, and the emphasis of developing Israel into a “wise and discerning people,” Scripture clearly stresses human knowledge and the consequences of error. We, too, long for confidence in our understanding, the assurance that our most basic knowledge is not ultimately incorrect. Biblical Knowing assesses what Israel knew, but more...

to be a covenantal ceremony.10 YHWH appears to bind Himself, possibly unto death, with Abram’s descendants and the texts expects the reader to see the covenant ceremony as the justification for YHWH’s declaration “know for sure.”11 So “knowing that” is contingent upon knowing-in-covenantrelationship. Similarly, to know that we are naked, in the sense that Genesis 2 juxtaposes it against Genesis 3, is to say that we are related to our body in a different way than we were before. What appears as “knowing
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