This is a provocative book, and one with which the average evangelical reader will disagree, some aggressively so. But it's worth reading. The author, Kenton Sparks, is an evangelical biblical scholar who makes the argument that much of higher biblical criticism can and should be appropriated by evangelicals.

Even if one does not agree with Sparks, it is helpful to understand the nature of biblical scholarship in the early 21st century, as it has changed considerably in recent decades.
Submitted by Anthony Blair
Dean of Academic Affairs, Eastern University, St. Davids, Pa.
Published by Baker Academic, March 2008. 416 pages. See on Amazon.
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