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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Isaak, Jon
• Jon Isaak

Titel

On Truth-Telling and Biblical Theology

Ist Teil von

• The Old Testament in the Life of God's People, 2009, p.103

Ort / Verlag

United States: Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Bible presents legal cases of all sorts but as a whole presents no systematized theology of any sort regarding truth-telling.¹ Although everywhere it speaks about, refers to, and implies truth, nowhere does either of the two Bibles, Jewish or Christian, declare itself on the subject of truth in one treatise that systematizes all the perspectives. To develop a biblical approach to truth, the biblical materials must be sys-tematized by their interpreters, by us, readers of the Bible from generation to generation. This is what has always been done in one way or another, because the biblical writers themselves have