Why shouldn't the Bible be subjected to scholarly methods?

The Bible should absolutely be subjected to scholarly methods, and it has been throughout its history. If you mean “modern scholarly methods”, it still has been. read more

The methods function as tools for understanding different aspects of the New Testament; most scholars try to approach these writings with a well-stocked tool box, prepared to use whichever method is called for at the time. read more

I believe we call into question SBL’s legitimacy by allowing the dissemination of explicitly confessional scholarship at its meetings that clearly call into question the very validity of the scientific, or historical-critical, method. read more

The most consistent use of the method of Bible study known as the Historical-Grammatical-Lexical Method (in this Textbook called the Contextual/Textual method) began in Antioch, Syria, in the third century a.d. in reaction to the Allegorical Method, which had developed several hundred years earlier in Alexandria, Egypt. read more