Backgrounds Quote by J. I. Packer

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events,…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible,…

— Frank Moore Cross

I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which…

— Oliver D. Crisp

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

— Robert Crumb

“I am interested in the literature and religion of ancient Israel. I focus on biblical law in its ancient Near Eastern context and on…

— Bernard M. Levinson

The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity…

— William F. Albright

“The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible.”

— Anonymous

I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to the Biblical…

— Frank Moore Cross

“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Word Studies in the Greek New Testament by Kenneth Wuest, 4 Volumes (Eerdmans). ”

— Rick Renner

“Biblical expositors are not pining away in their studies searching for ways to bring relevancy to their message. They don’t need to. The Bible…

— David R. Helm

“Sadly, we have confused biblical literature with history, and turned prophecy into biography.”

— Eli Of Kittim