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Varying Form of Title: | Reader in canonical criticism
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Other authors / contributors: | Lemcio, Eugene E.
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ISBN: | 9780567523969 0567523969 1850753741 9781850753742 1283200309 9781283200301 9786613200303 6613200301
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This wide-ranging collection of essays provides the reader with a critical introduction to the New Testament as the church's canon. The authors' conviction is that the Bible belongs first of all to the community of believers rather than to the guild of biblical scholars. But that does not make the tools and tasks of modern biblical criticism unimportant. Rather, they are the constructive means by which the scholar discerns the nature of the ongoing conversation between the church and its biblical canon and helps form the church into a community of worship and witness. Whether from a particular.
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Other form: | Print version: Wall, Robert W. New Testament as canon. Sheffield, Eng. : JSOT Press, ©1992 1850753741
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