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Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study from Peter Enns is an important reconsideration of evangelical perspectives on scriptural authority, particularly in light of recent Old Testament scholarship. His concern is to help readers whose faith has been challenged by critical studies. He suggests that evangelicals need to move beyond a merely defensive doctrine of Scripture and develop a positive view that seriously engages...

of Habakkuk. It is safe to say that the interpretation of Habakkuk 1:5 in 1QpHab is not an exercise in grammatical-historical exegesis. It is quite plainly an exercise in reading into the prophet’s words what the interpreter already knew those words were really about (as the last portion of the third comment makes clear). For the Qumran community, biblical interpretation was not a means of discovering ancient meaning but of using the Bible to validate the present self-understanding of the Qumran
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