REQUIRED RESOURCE: Merrill, Eugene. H., Michael Grisanti, and Mark Rooker.The World and the Word: An Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2011. ISBN: 9780805440317.
You must answer all questions. All your answers must come from the REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Merrill, Eugene. H., Michael Grisanti, and Mark Rooker.The World and the Word: An Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2011. ISBN: 9780805440317.
Restate the questions to which you are responding at the beginning of each answers. Your answers must be direct to the point and very short. State the page from the required textbook each answer is coming from. Answers are not to be taken from other published sources or copied/pasted from electronic and on-line sources. Students failing to comply with this policy will receive a failing grade for the course.
STUDY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER 5
1. How have evangelicals customarily defined the following: inspiration, autographa, and canon?
2. What are some of the ways God revealed what He wanted biblical writers to record?
3. Could biblical writers make use of non-canonical written records or oral tradition in writing a biblical book? Why or why not?
4. What is the significant of thousand-year period during which time biblical writers composed OT books?
5. What are the five prepositions offered in this chapter?
6. What are two examples of inspired textual updating?
7. What is the basic idea of “redaction”?
8. What kinds of redaction do evangelicals have concerns with and why?
9. Were biblical writers totally objective or given to bias (tendenz)?
10. Does any bias by biblical writers undercut the infallibility of the biblical books they
