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NT authors quoted works they considered authoritative, and works they did not. For example it would be a big leap from Titus 1:2 to claim that Paul regarded Epimenides as fully reliable:
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”ESV
Therefore we cannot tell by whether something is regarded ...
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My understanding of Childs' canonical criticism is that it allows one to circumvent difficulties brought about by historical criticism. With Childs a lack of historicity is not a problem. The canonical form of the Bible is that what God wanted to communicate to us.
Canonical criticism views the final canon, the way the scriptures ended up being as being ...
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It depends on the audience. I have seen documents like the Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan literature, Targumic literature, etc. referenced in studies of 300 pages or more. The intended audience here was the broader scholarly community. Some who are more conservative might not accept any extra-biblical books in hermeneutical research, even if these books are ...
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