Structure of Biblical Authority
Description
In this important treatise, Professor Meredith Kline offers a reinterpretation of the nature of the canonicity of Scripture, based on a re-examination of the history of the formation of the canonical Scriptures from Moses on. The formal model for the biblical canon concept that Kline articulates is found in the ancient Near Eastern treaties; the Bible, the author asserts, is in its literary-legal form a convenantal document, and the biblical canon must be understood as a treaty-canon. Hence, the major question of the authority of the Old Testament in the Christian church must be reassessed....
ISBN(s)
0802814751, 9780802814753
