Re: [asa] The Barr quote

The reason why I know this is because back in April 1989 I was involved with
writing the inerrancy FAQ for the USENET group soc.religion.christian. Here
is what I said back then (you can still Google this so be careful what you
say online!):

>
> Here is an interesting turn of events. Most inerrantists who are specialists in the field (and particularly OT scholars) do not hold to the "literal" six-day creation. An example of this thought is Gleason Archer. It seems that inerrantists and six-day creationists are thought to be one and the same, but from what I can tell six-day creationists are only a small subset of inerrantists.
>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can think of one off the top of my head. Gleason Archer, Professor of Old
> Testament and Semitics, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Randy Isaac <randyisaac@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe this quote from James Barr was discussed some time ago but I
>> can't seem to find it or remember what the conclusion was. Can some of
>> you please refresh my memory and give me the right perspective. A YEC'er who
>> is in dialog with me brought up that quote as follows:
>>
>> "As for what competent Hebrew scholars think about chronological
>> information in the Bible, here's a quote from James Barr, who at the time
>> was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University:
>> "... probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or
>> Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the
>> writer(s) of Genesis 1-11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas
>> that:
>>
>> "(a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same
>> as the days of 24 we now experience,
>>
>> "(b) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by
>> simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later
>> stages in the biblical story,
>>
>> "(c) Noah's flood was understood to be worldwide and extinguish all
>> human and animal life except for those in the ark." **"
>>
>>
>> Obviously, the argument he was raising against me was that all OT scholars
>> of repute are YEC.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>
>

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