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Canon, Covenant and Christology: Rethinking Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

‘All Scripture is breathed out by God …’ (2 Timothy 3:16). From Paul’s epistles the divine inspiration of Scripture may be confidently affirmed, as well as its corollary attributes. However, on turning to Jesus and the Gospels, it is hard to find an explicit approach like Paul’s. Matthew Barrett argues that Jesus and the apostles have just as convictional a doctrine of Scripture as Paul or...

1787 lecture at the University of Altdorf De justo discrimine theologiae biblicae et dogmaticae regundisque recte utriusque finibus.36 ‘We must investigate what in the sayings of the Apostle is truly divine, and what perchance merely human.’ The biblical theologian is to decide ‘whether all the opinions of the Apostles, of every type and sort altogether, are truly divine, or rather whether some of them, which have no bearing on salvation, were left to their own ingenuity’.37 For Gabler, only those
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