Author : John H. Walton
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 32X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lost World of Scripture by : John H. Walton
Download or read book The Lost World of Scripture written by John H. Walton. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walton and Sandy summarize what we know of orality and oral tradition as well as the composition and transmission of texts in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world, and how this shapes our understanding of the Old and New Testaments. The authors then translate these insights into a helpful model for understanding the reliability of Scripture.