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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...

this all presumes that the ritual is the outward expression of the inner thought life of Israel’s prophets, or even YHWH himself. I want to suggest that this approach mishandles the biblical teaching on rituals. Rituals are not the outward expression of inner thought; at least they are not merely that. Neither are rituals created merely to solve a problem (e.g., sin offering solves the problem of immoral behavior), as many ritual theorists suppose. Rather, rituals are the authoritative instructions
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