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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...

Furthermore, language changes—perhaps more slowly in the ancient world, but change is documented in many of the Semitic languages related to Hebrew and in Hebrew itself. A competent scribe would certainly update the language in such cases. Again, we must remember that at this stage the scribe does not think of himself as tampering with a canonical, written text.1 The idea that scribes making new copies of documents would revise the language is actually very helpful for us as we try to understand
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