The Authentication Test: Scripture Under Examination: Scripture Under Examination

Every scripture claims its words did not begin in a human mind. This book tests the claim the way contested authorship is tested anywhere else: by evidence.

For most of recorded history we have adjudicated that claim in the wrong room - in the temple and the seminary, by the light of devotion on one side and the heat of polemic on the other. A will challenged in probate, a manuscript of uncertain hand, a confession someone now disowns: we do not take a vote on which answer we would prefer. W...