Saturday 30 July 2011

Raymond Brown on theologians

To the jaundiced eye of a biblical scholar it often seems as if theologians phrase their theories of inspiration by reflecting on books like Genesis, the Gospels, and Romans; they might do better by trying their theories out on the first nine chapters of 1 Chronicles!


Raymond E. Brown, The Critical Meaning of the Bible, p.7.

5 comments:

  1. What sort of theory of inspiration would lead one to treat the first 9 chapters of Chronicles as if they were as relevant as the gospels (or Genesis or Revelation)?

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  2. Too funny!

    But then, you'd have to actually read the first 9 chapters of Chronicles to get the joke.

    It never ceases to amaze me that the world is so filled with turkeys.

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  3. "But then, you'd have to actually read the first 9 chapters of Chronicles to get the joke."

    I LOLed, would LOL again.

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  4. This is one of my favorite of Raymond Brown's books.

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