Protective strategies are simply ways in which particular interpreters privilege certain religious claims and then seal them off from any type of academic analysis. Any terms, beliefs, and judgments must concur and meet with that interpreter’s approval. This is a protective strategy. In other words, White male biblical scholars have outlined inerrancy and infallibility in such a way that anyone who questions or pushes back against these accepted viewpoints becomes disciplined and subsequently ostracized. Young (among other scholars) mentions, for example, the excommunication of Robert H.
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