Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture's divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God. (Jacques Berlinerblau)

Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture's divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God.

Jacques Berlinerblau

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