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The Bible and Epistemology: Biblical Soundings on the Knowledge of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many theologians and Christian philosophers have given considerable attention to the theory of knowledge in recent years. However, the rich resources of the biblical literature on questions of knowledge, especially the knowledge of God, have hardly begun to be mined because biblical scholars have rarely posed such questions to the texts. In this volume, Catholic and Protestant biblical scholars...

As we have seen in the first four chapters, Moses’ unparalleled access to divine knowledge through his relationship with Yahweh undergirds the entire Deuteronomic narrative. Moses’ torah (‘words’) is what will make actualization possible for future generations as Israel continues this story of history by her own obedience to the laws revealed in the past.25 At the heart of actualization is the need to restore the loving nature of her ontological union with Yahweh (6:4–9). Here we are introduced to
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