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Scripture’s Knowing: A Companion to Biblical Epistemology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Scripture’s Knowing is a guide to the emerging field of philosophical study of Scripture, specifically about knowing. Assuming that the Scriptures speak verbosely and persistently about knowing, what do the biblical authors have to say? How do they conceptualize ideas like truth and knowledge? Most importantly, how do we come to confidently know anything at all? Scripture’s Knowing follows the...

our estimation) in the face of the stresses and strains of the storm. In the Hebrew Bible, that which is true is that which proves, in the face of time and circumstance, to be what it ought; whereas that which is false is that which fails … to be what it ought.7 This means that the biblical notion of knowing truth and knowing it truly must regard the priority of skilfully seeing something to be true “in the face of time and circumstance.” The picture does not change radically in the New Testament,
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