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How can an evangelical view of Scripture be reconciled with modern biblical scholarship? In this book Peter Enns, an expert in biblical interpretation, addresses Old Testament phenomena that challenge traditional evangelical perspectives on Scripture. He then suggests a way forward, proposing an incarnational model of biblical inspiration that takes seriously both the divine and the human aspects of Scripture. This tenth anniversary edition has an updated bibliography and includes a substantive postscript that reflects on the reception of the first edition.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	15 septembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493400102
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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© 2005, 2015 by Peter Enns
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
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Ebook edition created 2015
Ebook corrections 07.06.2023
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ISBN 978-1-4934-0010-2
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
Scripture quotations from the Apocrypha are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The illustration on page 43 is from Alan P. Dickin, On a Faraway Day . . . : A New View of Genesis in Ancient Mesopotamia (Columbus, GA: Brentwood Christian Press, 2002), 122. Used by permission of the author.
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“ Inspiration and Incarnation was a watershed in evangelical hermeneutics. Written primarily for lay readers and seminarians, it served as a release valve for some and a source of consternation for others. The controversy was to be expected. Enns’s argument—that, however highly evangelicals may laud the Scriptures, an honest and serious approach to the text cannot ignore the findings of critical scholarship or the reality of Scripture itself—was as correct as it was forceful. This second edition is warmly welcomed. Throughout, Enns writes with the insight of an accomplished scholar, the wit of a skilled teacher, and the heart of a concerned pastor.”
— Chris Keith , Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham
“Peter Enns is to be applauded for the second edition of this important and insightful book. The questions he raised a decade ago continue to demand our careful attention today. In Inspiration and Incarnation , Enns challenges evangelicals (and others) to rethink traditional views of Scripture by considering the implications of the Old Testament’s theological diversity, the New Testament’s reuse of the Old, and the Bible’s similarities with other ancient Near Eastern texts. Enns is a skilled and gracious guide through this difficult terrain, and readers benefit enormously from his expertise. Highly recommended for biblical scholars and general readers alike!”
— Eric Seibert , Messiah College
“Peter Enns is a leading voice in a new generation of evangelicalism. Inspiration and Incarnation has already helped guide many both to accept the unexpected content of the Bible and to begin to wrestle with what it means to call this surprising set of texts the word of God. While exploring aspects of the Old Testament that many find unsettling at first, Inspiration and Incarnation offers us the good news that God is not limited by our expectations but can and does speak through the Bible we actually have.”
— J. R. Daniel Kirk , Fuller Theological Seminary
“Peter Enns is one of the most important scholarly voices speaking to Christianity today, and this book is a primary example of why! With technical expertise, intellectual honesty, and an abiding sensitivity to the deep concerns of the Christian faith, Enns tackles three thorny questions that arise from reading the Old Testament in the light of modern biblical scholarship. The newly added postscript is particularly useful. May this second edition be read as widely and engaged as critically as the first!”
— Christopher W. Skinner , Mount Olive College and East Carolina University
Praise for the First Edition
“At last, here is a constructive exploration—by an evangelical scholar with a high view of Scripture—of how to handle seriously the evidence from inside and outside the Bible that sits uncomfortably with classic formulations. Enns’s combination of faith and intellectual honesty will bring much encouragement to all serious Bible students who have struggled to face up to these unavoidable issues.”
— H. G. M. Williamson , University of Oxford
“Enns has done the evangelical church a great service by emphasizing the human dimension of Scripture. He likens the incarnation of Scripture to the incarnation of Christ: both are truly divine and truly human. Enns has given impetus to evangelicals to discuss the doctrines of inspiration and hermeneutics, and he offers an excellent base on which to develop their understanding of these most important doctrines in the twenty-first century.”
— Bruce K. Waltke , Regent College and Reformed Theological Seminary
“The author has offered an honest and refreshing look at the implications of contemporary biblical scholarship for a Christian doctrine of Scripture. His incarnational paradigm will likely provide an alternative way of reading the Old Testament for many Christians who no longer find traditional evangelical answers satisfying. Written for a popular audience, this book nevertheless makes a contribution to what may be considered the maturation of evangelical scholarship and at the same time is an ardent appeal to allow that maturation to continue.”
— Bill T. Arnold , Asbury Theological Seminary
“In this book, Enns explores three aspects of the Bible, and he sometimes raises and reflects on uncomfortable questions. How is the Bible, especially the Old Testament, divine revelation if it shares the material and, to some extent, even the worldview of its ancient Near Eastern neighbors? What are we to make of the contradictory perspectives and views that the Bible presents? How do we respond to New Testament writers who interpret the Old Testament in ways that we would disallow in a contemporary classroom setting? In sum, how is the Bible the Bible, and how does one read it on its own terms?”
— David W. Baker , Ashland Theological Seminary
For Erich, Elizabeth, and Sophia “That’s a really good question. . . .”
Contents
Cover i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Endorsements v
Dedication vii
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xiii
1. Getting Our Bearings 1
What I Hope to Accomplish in This Book • A Way toward Addressing the Problem: The Incarnational Analogy
2. The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature 13
The Impact of Akkadian Literature • Some Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts • What Exactly Is the Problem? • How Have These Issues Been Handled in the Past? • How Can We Think through These Issues Differently? • How Does This Affect Us?
3. The Old Testament and Theological Diversity 61
The Problem of Theological Diversity in the Old Testament • Diversity in Wisdom Literature • Diversity in Chronicles • Diversity in Law • God and Diversity • What Does Diversity Tell Us about Scripture?
4. The Old Testament and Its Interpretation in the New Testament 103
Do New Testament Authors Misuse the Old Testament? • Biblical Interpretation in the Second Temple Period • Apostolic Hermeneutics as a Second Temple Phenomenon: Interpretive Methods • Apostolic Hermeneutics as a Second Temple Phenomenon: Interpretive Traditions • What Makes Apostolic Hermeneutics Unique? • Should We Handle the Old Testament the Way the Apostles Did? • What We Can Learn from Apostolic Hermeneutics
5. The Big Picture 157
What Is the Bible, and What Are We Supposed to Do with It? • Continuing the Conversation: Learning to Listen
Postscript 165
Glossary 181
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings 195
Index of Subjects 199
Back Cover 203
Preface to the Second Edition
I am honored that Baker is releasing this tenth anniversary edition of Inspiration and Incarnation . This edition has some slight revisions, a modestly expanded bibliography, and a reflective postscript.
As for the revisions, they are slight indeed and are largely for clarification. I considered at one point doing a more substantive revision—adding examples, expanding and adjusting some arguments to reflect movement in my own thinking since the book came out—but decided against it. For one thing, in reading through the book cover to cover (for the first time in several years), I was struck—and pleased—by how much of the book has remained with me over the past decade. The themes and general approach to Scripture I take in Inspiration and Incarnation remain an important part of my thinking. Still, I am no longer exactly where I was when I first conceived of the book in 2001—which is to say I am human. No one’s thinking truly lies motionless for so many years, and so it stands to reason that I would write Inspiration and Incarnation somewhat differently today in midlife than I did when barely forty with children in grammar school.
I wrote Inspiration and Incarnation firmly and self-consciously in support of a “progressive inerrantist” or “genre inerrantist” point of view. Those who subscribe to this view affirm inerrancy in different ways, but they all agree that inerrancy is not to be equated with literalistic readings of Scripture. Rather it must be sensitive to ancient genres and ancient conventions of speech. In my own articulation of this progressive inerrantist view, I would stress that inerrancy is misconceived if it is used to delimit interpretive conclusions as a matter of a priori philosophical necessity, that is, coming to Scripture with thick interpretive boundaries already drawn. Instead, I would explain inerrancy as an expression of faith and trust in God, that whatever the Bib