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The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume Ben Witherington asks, “What does it mean to call the Bible ‘God’s word’?” In doing so, he takes on other recent studies which downplay the connection between history and theology, or between historical accuracy and truth claims. Witherington argues that the Bible is not merely to be viewed as a Word about God. Instead, he says that the Bible exhorts us to see the Bible as a living...

A further issue is what to make of the adjective theopneustos. Its literal meaning, “God-breathed,” is a term used in pagan literature—for example, in reference to the Sibylline oracles (cf. Sib. Oracles 5.308, 406; Plutarch, Or. at Delphi 7; Pseudo-Phocylides, 121), and in the papyri (SIG 95; CMRDM 2.A8). We may compare, for example, an aretology to Isis written in Macedonia which reads at one point “this encomium is written not only by the hand of a man, but also by the mind of a god” (line 14).
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