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“The existential predicament in which one fears condemnation is quite different from the one where one fears, above all, meaninglessness. The dominance of the latter perhaps defines our age.” (p. 18)

“Both [higher critics and dispensationalists] sought to answer the question of how the Bible was made meaningful in the modern world, and both found the answers not in doctrine or behavior or tradition, but in attempts to articulate scientific interpretative methods” (p. 124).

I’m only two chapters in, but this is truly a groundbreaking study. Pietsch’s historiographical interventions completely turn the OG categories upside down.