Jeremiah was the authoritative prophet who first spoke, not the author of the final book.
Walton and Sandy suggest a model that emphasizes an authority as the 'fountainhead' they posit a process that resembles more Wikipedia than our solitary, contemporary author but still results in an inerrant canonical text. While evangelical systematic theologians rally for traditional inerrancy, evangelical biblical scholars (who are more likely to wrestle with the origins of the text) see how inerrancy works better for Luke than it does for Jeremiah. For us, an oral story is just intrinsically inferior to a written story, and thus we want our Scriptures to have been written texts from the very beginning. We tend to view oral societies as the uneducated country cousins of our more sophisticated, urban, literate societies. Noting that Scripture arose in a 'text-possible-but-hearing-prevalent society,' they argue that text-dominant cultures like ours inappropriately emphasize documents (versus texts which can be oral or written). Walton and Sandy take those same concerns to the entire canon. Elsewhere, I argued that modern authorship describes poorly NT letter-writing customs. There's nothing inherently wrong with the doctrine it's merely a poor fit. As an inerrantist myself, I fret that Scripture is being stretched Procrustean-style onto an Enlightenment framework. "The nineteenth-century doctrine of inerrancy is gently introduced to the twenty-first century by two sympathetic insiders. Walton, bringing a fresh, close reading of the Hebrew text and knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature to an accessible discussion of the biblical topic at hand using a series of logic-based propositions. The books in the Lost World Series follow the pattern set by Bible scholar John H. "Our specific objective is to understand better how both the Old and New Testaments were spoken, written and passed on, especially with an eye to possible implications for the Bible?s inspiration and authority."
"In this book we are exploring ways God chose to reveal his word in light of discoveries about ancient literary culture," write Walton and Sandy. From the reasons why specific words were used to convey certain ideas to how oral tradition impacted the transmission of biblical texts, the authors seek to uncover how these issues might affect our current doctrine on the authority of Scripture. Stemming from questions about scriptural inerrancy, inspiration and oral transmission of ideas, The Lost World of Scripture examines the process by which the Bible has come to be what it is today. 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. Walton, author of the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Referenceįrom John H.
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