Building a House on Sand: What Do Evangelicals Do When They Do Textual Criticism of the Old Testament?
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Building a House on Sand : What Do Evangelicals Do When They Do Textual Criticism of the Old Testament? / Rezetko, Robert Carl.
Misusing Scripture: What are Evangelicals Doing with the Bible?. ed. / Mark Elliott; Kenneth Atkinson; Robert Rezetko. Routledge, 2023. p. 95-127 (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Building a House on Sand
T2 - What Do Evangelicals Do When They Do Textual Criticism of the Old Testament?
AU - Rezetko, Robert Carl
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Chapter 3 in Introducing Misusing Scripture: What Are Evangelicals Doing with the Bible? (2023a above). Robert Rezetko, “Building a House on Sand: What Do Evangelicals Do When They Do Textual Criticism of the Old Testament?” (Chapter 3), identifies the Westminster Confession of Faith and “The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy” as foundational documents to contemporary American evangelicalism. Prominent in both is their declaration of the divine revelation, inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy of the original OT and NT texts. Rezetko explores the views of evangelical scholars on the OT text. He evaluates major evangelical publications on the topic, paying close attention to what they say about the original text and what they aim to accomplish with their text-critical principles and practices. He argues evangelical scholars find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, informed evangelical OT textual critics have rightfully accepted the scholarly consensus view and abandoned the search for the original text. On the other hand, their presuppositions and beliefs compel them to still try to defend the text’s accuracy and reliability, and indirectly its originality and inerrancy. Consequently, evangelical scholarship on the OT text is marked by conflict of interests, mutually inconsistent beliefs, problematic tactics, and ultimately uncritical and marginal views.
AB - Chapter 3 in Introducing Misusing Scripture: What Are Evangelicals Doing with the Bible? (2023a above). Robert Rezetko, “Building a House on Sand: What Do Evangelicals Do When They Do Textual Criticism of the Old Testament?” (Chapter 3), identifies the Westminster Confession of Faith and “The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy” as foundational documents to contemporary American evangelicalism. Prominent in both is their declaration of the divine revelation, inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy of the original OT and NT texts. Rezetko explores the views of evangelical scholars on the OT text. He evaluates major evangelical publications on the topic, paying close attention to what they say about the original text and what they aim to accomplish with their text-critical principles and practices. He argues evangelical scholars find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, informed evangelical OT textual critics have rightfully accepted the scholarly consensus view and abandoned the search for the original text. On the other hand, their presuppositions and beliefs compel them to still try to defend the text’s accuracy and reliability, and indirectly its originality and inerrancy. Consequently, evangelical scholarship on the OT text is marked by conflict of interests, mutually inconsistent beliefs, problematic tactics, and ultimately uncritical and marginal views.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003126416-5
DO - 10.4324/9781003126416-5
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367648138
T3 - Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
SP - 95
EP - 127
BT - Misusing Scripture
A2 - Elliott, Mark
A2 - Atkinson, Kenneth
A2 - Rezetko, Robert
PB - Routledge
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