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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...

has to feed the Israelite prophet (v. 13b), who ironically is the cause of her distress, inasmuch as it was he who called for the drought (v. 1). She passes the test and presumably gains some sense that the God of Israel cares for her and has chosen to provide for her through this ‘man of God’. But when a sterner test follows, it is precisely this truth that she begins to doubt. The death of her son brings to the surface her profound sense of guilt and a growing suspicion that Yahweh and his prophet
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