Category: KEDS Essays
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KEDS Essays — New Testament Survey
The Epistle of James and the First Epistle of John The Epistle of James Introduction. Scholars have proposed dozens of disparate solutions to the most basic questions regarding the epistle of James (Edgar, 2001). It is indeed difficult to assess genre, audience, message, purpose, and social, historical and cultural setting of this epistle. This is…
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KEDS Essays — Old Testament Survey
Introduction to the book of Exodus and the book of Haggai Exodus Until the 19th century the historicity and traditional authorship of the Pentateuch was widely accepted. Nowadays, however, Exodus is a controversial book (Seiglie, 2003). The Documentary Hypothesis constituted the first substantial shift, rejecting Mosaic authorship (Allis, 2001). The biblical minimalists went much further, denying archaeological…
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KEDS Essays — Introduction to the Bible
The formation of the Bible text is wholly the product of divine dictation, rather than human input. Discuss. Introduction Divine revelation is seen as essential to Christianity across the spectrum. Ball (2012) says that any knowledge one may have of God is solely “the outcome of God’s gracious initiative and of his will to be…