general and knowledge of God in particular. Certainly, Christian theologians and philosophers have sought to develop accounts of knowledge that are true to Scripture, but in most cases their training is not biblical studies, and so their engagement with the text can lack rigor and nuance. This is no fault of the theologians and philosophers—it is difficult to be an expert in even one field in this age of over-specialization. What is surprising is that, with few exceptions, biblical scholars have
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