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The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority is unavailable, but you can change that!

From John H. Walton, author of the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. Brent Sandy, author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a detailed look at the origins of scriptural authority in ancient oral cultures and how they inform our understanding of the Old and New Testaments today. Stemming from questions about scriptural inerrancy, inspiration and oral transmission of ideas, The Lost...

of genre study, we can use some of the tools provided by what is called speech-act theory.2 Speech-act theory has been around for several decades. It recognizes that communication is an action with particular intentions. It therefore addresses both philosophical hermeneutics and comparative studies by locating the meaning within the communicative act between the communicator and the implied audience.3 We do not agree with many of the conclusions associated with speech-act theory,
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