The Story of Hannah: A Reflection on The Torah and Inspiration

Hannah is a peasant girl living in the year 860 B.C. in a little village on a hillside in the Northern Kingdom....

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Inspiration of Scripture and the Problem of Non-Virgins: A Conversation

Much of Protestant and Catholic tradition and practice rest on the idea of the "inspiration of scripture."

It's worth wondering what that phrase means.

First, then, here's an articulation of the problem from a friend's question: What does inspiration mean, and what meaning can it reasonably have given some of scripture's enormities?

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