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    The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority

    By John H. Walton and Brent Sandy

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    From John H. Walton, author of the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. 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.

    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. 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.

    "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. "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."

    The books in the Lost World Series follow the pattern set by Bible scholar John H. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP Academic
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9780830864980
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    The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority
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    John H. Walton

    John H. Walton (PhD, Hebrew Union College) is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Old Testament Today, with Andrew E. Hill; volumes on Job and Genesis in the NIV Application Commentary series; the six-volume Lost World series; and Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. He was also coeditor, with Craig Keener, of the ECPA 2017 Bible of the Year winner, the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible.

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    • 4/5
      Walton and Sandy’s propositions and conclusions are well-grounded both in fundamental Christian beliefs and contemporary scholarship. The book structure of Walton's Lost World series is consistently helpful and easy to follow language. I found his introductions on the world of ancient literature, his applications of speech-act theory, and his discussions on inspiration and authority to be most helpful.
    • 5/5
      A very, very challenging book, not only for its primary intended readers (conservative Christians) but also for any Liberals who may be humble enough to learn from fundamentalists.

      I mentioned fundamentalism in the original sense: this is primary a book for fundamentalists adhering to Biblical inerrancy but wanting a better definition of it, and understanding of the Bible, based on Scripture’s original cultural context, including the role of orality in the genesis of texts and in their transmission. Incidentally, the author’s argument ends up supporting a Reformed emphasis they did not even mention: that the faithful preaching of the Word of God is itself God’s word for man.

      I wish I could give it 4,75 stars, or five stars for contents and four for presentation. The format of a series of propositions instead of chapters seems didatic but odd, and the initial chapters (I really will not call them ‘propositions’) are presented against the Evangelical grain, even if they actually intend to serve Evangelicals, and thus may loose quite a few readers who will loose heart before they reach the end of the book, even if it is a much needed reading for everyone wanting to improve beyond the very basic level of exegesis as presented, for instance, in Fee & Stuart’s _Reading the Bible for all its Worth_.

      Essentially, the authors propose we differentiate between roles or aspects of the same inspired Scriptural texts: locution (words used by the authors, in their original cultural context); illocution (meaning or communication intended, and only fully exposed by understanding locution in its cultural context); and perlocution (response hoped in readers or hearers). But the implications are multifold, and much beyond the scope of such a puny review as mine.

      Essential.