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1 Scriptureworkshop.Com Working Bibliography on Inspiration working bibliography on inspiration, inerrancy, and evangelical interpretation Gary E. Schnittjer [last updated Jan 2016] For further reading on the scriptures and related matters see http://ScriptureWorkshop.com/bibliography/. Arndt, William. Bible Difficulties and Seeming Contradictions (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1987). Barker, Kit. “Divine Illocutions in Psalm 137: A Critique of Nicholas Wolterstorff’s ‘Second Hermeneutic.’” Tyndale Bulletin 60.1 (2009): 1-14. Barr, James. Beyond Fundamentalism: Biblical Foundations for Evangelical Christianity (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984). Barth, Karl. “The Christian Understanding of Revelation,” 205-240, in Karl Barth, Against the Stream: Shorter Post-War Writings, 1946-52 (SCM Press, 1954) __________. Church Dogmatics, 2d ed., eds. G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1936, 1975), I/1, § 4.2-4 (99-124) [Thomson trans. on class page, pp. 111- 140] Bartholomew, Craig, et al, eds. “Behind” the Text: History and Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan, 2003). Baum, Armin D. “Is New Testament Inerrancy a New Testament Concept? A Traditional and therefore Open-minded Answer.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 57.2 (2014): 265-280. Beale, G. K. The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority (Crossway, 2008). Blomberg, Craig. Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions (Brazos Press, 2014). Brown, William P., ed. Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture (Westminster John Knox, 2007). Childs, Brevard S. “Critique of Recent Intertextual Canonical Interpretation.” Zeitschrift für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 115 (2003): 173-184. __________. “Karl Barth as Interpreter of Scripture,” 30-35, in David L. Dickerman, ed., Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology: A Memorial Colloquium Held at the Yale Divinity School January 28, 1969 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Divinity School Association, 1969) __________. Memory and Tradition in Israel, Studies in Biblical Theology, no. 37 (London: SCM Press, 1962), 81-89 __________. “The Nature of the Christian Bible: One Book, Two Testaments,” in The Rule of Faith: Scripture, Canon, and Creed in a Critical Age, ed. Ephraim Radner and George Sumner (New York: Morehouse Publishing, 1998). Also see Childs, “Jesus Christ the Lord and the Scriptures of the Church” and “The One Gospel in Four Witnesses” in the same volume. __________. “On Reclaiming the Bible for Christian Theology,” 1-17, in C. Braaten and R. Jenson, eds., Reclaiming the Bible for the Church (Eerdmans, 1995) __________. “Interpretation in Faith: The Theological Responsibility of an Old Testament Commentary,” Interpretation 18.4 (1964): 432-49 __________. “Speech-act Theory and Biblical Interpretation.” Scottish Journal of Theology 58.4 (2005): 375-392. 1 ScriptureWorkshop.com Working Bibliography for “Inspiration, Inerrancy, and Evangelical Interpretation” Christensen, Michael J. C. S. Lewis on Scripture (Abingdon, 1979). Coats, George W. and Burke O. Long, eds. Canon and Authority: Essays in Old Testament Religion and Theology (Fortress, 1977). Enns, Peter. “Apostolic Hermeneutics and an Evangelical Doctrine of Scripture: Moving Beyond a Modernist Impasse,” Westminster Theological Journal 65 (2003): 263-87. __________. “Exodus, Historiography, and Some Theological Reflections” Act 3 Review 15/4 (2007). __________. “‘Hey, Get Away from My Bible!’ A Christian Appropriation of a Jewish Bible,” January 2009 (online essay). __________. Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament. Baker Academic, 2005. (0-8010-2730-6) Also see Bruce Waltke, “Revisiting Inspiration and Incarnation,” WTJ 71 (2009): 83-95; Peter Enns, “Interaction with Bruce Waltke,” WTJ 71 (2009): 97-114; Bruce K. Waltke, “Interaction with Peter Enns,” WTJ 71 (2009): 115-128. Also see follow up rejoinders on Enns website. __________. “Matthew and Hosea: A Response to John Sailhamer,” Westminster Theological Journal 63 (2001): 97-105. __________. “Preliminary Observations on an Incarnational Model of Scripture,” Calvin Theological Journal 42 (2007): 219-236. __________. “Some Thoughts on Theological Exegesis of the Old Testament: Toward a Viable Model,” Reformation & Revival Journal 14 92005): 81-104 __________. “Bible in Context: The Continuing Vitality of Reformed Biblical Scholarship,” Westminster Theological Journal 68 (2006): 203-18. Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism, eds. Christopher M. Hays and Christopher B. Ansberry (Baker, 2013). George, Timothy. “Inventing Evangelicalism,” Christianity Today 48 (March 2004): 48-51; and see Carl F. H. Henry, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (Eerdmans, 1947) Goldingay, John. Models for Scripture (Eerdmans, 1994), chaps 1, 18, 19 in part (1-18, 252-60, 261-78. Gorman, David. “The Use and Abuse of Speech-Act Theory in Criticism,” Poetics Today 20.1 (1999): 93-119. Graves, Michael. The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Can Teach Us (Eerdmans, 2014). Grisanti, Michael. “Inspiration, Inerrancy, and the OT Canon: The Place of Textual Updating in an Inerrant View of Scripture.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 44.4 (2001): 577-98. Grubbs, Norris C. and Curtis Scott Drumm, “What Does Theology Have to Do with the Bible?: A Call for the Expansion of the Doctrine of Inspiration,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 53.1 (2010): 65-79. Gundry, Robert H. Matthew: A Commentary on His Literary and Theological Art (Eerdmans, 1982), esp. 623-640. See responses, along with Gundry’s counter-responses, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 26.1 (1983), especially, Douglas J. Moo, “Matthew and Midrash: An Evaluation of Robert H. Gundry’s Approach,” 31-40; Robert H. Gundry, “A Response to ‘Matthew and Midrash’,” 41-56; Douglas J. Moo, “Once Again, ‘Matthew and Midrash’: A Rejoinder to Robert H. Gundry,” 57-70; .Robert H. Gundry, “A Surrejoinder to Douglas J. Moo,” 71-86; Norman L. Geisler, “Methodological Unorthodoxy,” 87-94; Robert H. Gundry, “A response to ‘Methodological Unorthodoxy’,” 95-100; Norman L. Geisler, “Is There Madness in the Method?: A 2 Working Bibliography for “Inspiration, Inerrancy, and Evangelical Interpretation” Rejoinder to Robert H. Gundry,” 101-108; Robert H. Gundry, “A Surrejoinder to Norman L. Geisler,” 109-116; also passing comments in John S. Feinberg, “Truth, Meaning, and Inerrancy in Contemporary Evangelical Thought,” 28-30. Also, see, for example, D. A. Carson, “Gundry on Matthew: A Critical Review,” Trinity Journal 3 new series (1982): 71-91; Philip Barton Payne, “Midrash and History in the Gospels with Special Reference to Gundry’s Matthew,” 177-215, in R. T. France and David Wenham, eds. Gospel Perspectives, Vol. 3, Studies in Midrash and Historiography (JSOT Press, 1983). Hays, J. Daniel. “An Evangelical Approach to Old Testament Narrative Criticism.” Bibliotheca Sacra 166 (2009): 3-18. Hays, Richard B. “The Conversion of the Imagination: Scripture and Eschatology in 1 Corinthians,” 1-24, in The Conversion of the Imagination (Eerdmans, 2005) __________. “The Role of Scripture in Paul’s Ethics,” 143-162, in Richard B. Hays, The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture (Eerdmans, 2005). Helm, Paul. “B. B. Warfield’s Path to Inerrancy: An Attempt to Correct Some Serious Misunderstandings,” Westminster Theological Journal 72 (2010): 23-42. Hodges, Louis Igou, “Evangelical Definitions of Inspiration: Critiques and a Suggested Definition.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37.1 (1994): 99-114. Hoffmeier, James K. and Dennis R. Magary, eds., Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?: A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture (Crossway, 2012). Holding, James Patrick. “The Debate Over Defining Inerrancy,” Christian Research Journal 38.3 (2015): 42-47. Holding defines present tensions regarding context and genre. Holmes, Andrew R. “Biblical Authority and the Impact of Higher Criticism in Irish Presbyterianism, ca. 1850-1930,” Church History 75 (2006): 343-373. Johnson, Alan F. “The Historical-Critical Method: Egyptian Gold or pagan Precipice?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 26.1 (1983): 3-16. Johnson, Luke Timothy. “Imagining the World Scripture Imagines,” Modern Theology 14 (1998): 165-180. Knoppers, Gary N. “The Historical Study of Monarchy: Developments and Detours,” 207-35, in David W. Baker and Bill T. Arnold, eds., The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches (Baker, 1999). Letis, Theodore P. “Chapter One: B. B. Warfield, Common-Sense Philosophy, and Biblical Criticism,” 1-29, in The Ecclesiastical Text: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority, and the Popular Mind (Philadelphia: Institute for Renaissance and Reformation Biblical Studies, 1997). Lindbeck, George A. “Postcritical Canonical Interpretation: Three Modes of Retrieval,” 26-51, in C. Seitz and K. Greene-McCreight, eds., Theological Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Brevard S. Childs (Eedrmans, 1999). Lindsell, Harold. The Battle for the Bible (Zondervan, 1976). Long, V. Philips. The Art of Biblical History (1994), 287-429, in Moisés Silva, ed. Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation (Zondervan, 1996). __________. “Historiography of the Old Testament,” 145-75, in David W. Baker and Bill T. Arnold, eds., The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches (Baker, 1999). __________. “How Reliable
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