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This book sheds new light on the historical tension between Scripture and Tradition in the Church. Prominent New Testament scholar Edith M. Humphrey, who understands the issue from both Protestant and Catholic/Orthodox perspectives, revisits this perennial point of tension. She demonstrates that the Bible itself reveals the importance of Tradition, exploring how the Gospels, Acts, and the...

scribes, or (as they came to be known around the time of Hillel) rabbis (“teachers”).2 Who better to teach the traditions, oral or written, than those who write about them? In order to understand the response of the New Testament to the scribal traditions, it is helpful for us to look at the teachers’ assumptions and interpretive principles. In this chapter we will seek to understand the way that the scribes handled tradition, then go on to consider the criticisms leveled at “deadly traditions” (both
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