"As this fascinating study shows, the road to rational skepticism was unintentionally paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders. As theologically conservative Americans defended the Bible, they were forced to alter their concept of revelation to preserve their fait…
From Scripture to text -- Bible and theology at an enlightenment university -- The study of classical antiquity at Göttingen -- Michaelis and the dead Hebrew language -- Lowth, Michaelis, and the invention of biblical poetry -- Michaelis, Moses, and the recovery of the Bible.
A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history.
A collection of essays seeks to establish the properly oriented use of the historical-critical method as the mode of ascertaining the sense of the written Word of God.
