Re: [asa] The Barr quote

Well that's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? To conservative
evangelicals, TEDS is a top-tier school (and it employs at least one truly
world class theologian today in Kevin Vanhoozer). To Oxford Dons, it may or
may not be -- and that selection bias colors the results.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Don Nield <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> Is Trinity Evangelical Divinity School a "world class university"?
> Don
>
>
> Rich Blinne 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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