DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
The finished books as synagogue and church handed them down. Childs asked what a book like Matthew means as part of the whole Bible, so a line like Matthew 19:17 is read within Matthew as it stands, not against its sources.
Why it’s interesting
He did not deny that the books have a history; he called it a question for historians. His approach answers a widespread sense that the critics took the text apart and someone ought to put it together again.
Scholarly consensus
Learn the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.