9 The Respiration of Scripture – Can there be Inspiration without Expiration?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Inspired Writing?
5. Theology within Textual Plurality?
6. 1 Biblical Plurality: An Ongoing Conversation Embodied in Scriptures 13
7. 2 Theologies in the Hebrew Bible and Theology of the Hebrew Bible: Some Methodological Considerations and Case Studies 25
8. How to Deal with Textual Fluidity?
9. 3 Textual Fluidity as a Challenge to Inspiration? A Biblical Scholar’s Point of View 41
10. 4 Textual Fluidity as a Challenge to Inspiration? A Systematic Theologian’s Point of View 65
11. Part II: Inspired Reading?
12. Active Participation in Revelation?
13. 5 Revelation’s Activating: The Verbal as the Expression of the Personal Impression 83
14. 6 Reception as Revelation: Correlational Theology in Jewish Tradition and Scripture 101
15. Reception as Revelation?
16. 7 New Testament Inspiration and Apocryphal Subtext: The Case of the Epistle of Jude 147
17. 8 Qur’ānic Inspiration: A Triple Rupture? Remarks on the Qur’ānic Process of Revelation 167
18. 9 The Respiration of Scripture – Can there be Inspiration without Expiration? 183
19. List of Abbreviations 199
20. List of Contributors 201
21. Index of Ancient and Modern Authors 203