{"content":[{"text":"Tyndale Bulletin 29 (1978) 49-60.","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.043439,"width":0.267457,"height":0.020212}},{"text":"THE ANNUAL LECTURE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR BIBLICAL \n RESEARCH, 1977*","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.078288,"width":0.535317,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"PROPHECY, INSPIRATION, AND SENSUS PLENIOR","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.149127,"width":0.6162460000000001,"height":0.02621499999999999}},{"text":"By William Sanford LaSor","bbox":{"left":0.328492,"top":0.206015,"width":0.21178999999999992,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"The Institute for Biblical Research is committed to two \n main concepts. We are committed to rigorous scholarly \n methodology, and we are committed to the proposition \n that the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, the \n infallible rule of faith and practice. These two \n concepts - and I am sure that here I voice the \n testimony of each one of us - these two concepts keep us \n continually in a state of tension. So much is this true \n that at times, we must confess, we devote our scholarly \n activities to questions that do not directly involve our \n theological presuppositions. How easy it is to prepare \n a paper on \"The Sibilants in Old South Arabic\", or \"The \n Masoretic Accents in Hebrew Poetry\", or \"The Version \n Quoted by the Author of Hebrews\"! I have contributed \n my share of papers on such subjects, so what I say is \n not an attempt to ease my own conscience while making \n you squirm. \n The Institute for Biblical Research, however, must exist \n for something more than secular scholarship. I am not \n too happy about that word \"secular\" for we have shifted \n its meaning greatly. The saecula are the ages, and \n secular scholarship should be scholarship that is \n intended for or concerns the ages. But we have made it \n mean the opposite of \"sacred\". Secular scholarship may \n be biblical scholarship, in that it discusses some area \n that is derived from the biblical text or is in some way \n related to the biblical world of ideas, but it is \n nevertheless secular in that the methods and results are \n no different than they would be in nonbiblical \n scholarship. We, however, believe that the Bible is the \n Word of the living God. We believe that it is \n authoritative for our generation and for every \n generation. Therefore we dare not treat the Bible as we \n would treat any other book.","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.258288,"width":0.462752,"height":0.6039239999999999}},{"text":"*","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.875629,"width":0.008971000000000007,"height":0.01849400000000001}},{"text":"Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for \n Biblical Research, San Francisco, 31 December. 1977.","bbox":{"left":0.208008,"top":0.875629,"width":0.392393,"height":0.034402000000000044}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}