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About: Daniel R. Driver

» D. R. Driver is completing a PhD in the Old Testament at the University of St Andrews (title: "Scripture's Textual Authority: The Work of Brevard Childs in International Context"). He will begin lecturing in the Religious Studies department at Tyndale University College, Toronto, from August 2008.

Website: http://www.danieldriver.com/
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Articles by D. R. Driver

D. R. Driver has contributed 5 posts to Scripture & Theology.

JTS 59.1: Did the serpent get it right? and other matters

By D. R. Driver, 8 April 2008

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God’s prohibition and the humans’ transgression need not be morally obvious to be genuinely serious. The serpent’s never telling the woman to transgress but rather undermining God’s trustworthiness and truthfulness and leaving her to draw her own conclusions points to the real core of human alienation from God and the real root of disobedience...

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Peter Enns’ Suspension Discussed at WTS

By D. R. Driver, 1 April 2008

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As Christianity Today noted last week, the board of Westminster Theological Seminary has voted to suspend Old Testament professor Peter Enns in connection with his 2005 book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament. The faculty, on the other hand, had voted 12 to 8 in support of Enns. Today the seminary hosted a town hall style meeting with the Seminary President and the Board Secretary and Chairman.

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Blog Conference: Balthasar’s Theological Exegesis

By D. R. Driver, 20 March 2008

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Blog conference underway: Balthasar’s Theological Exegesis

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Open Access Scholarship and the S&T Site

By D. R. Driver, 19 February 2008

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We may not all be peers, but in terms of access we stand virtually on the same level.

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Biblical Criticism and Religious Reading

By D. R. Driver, 13 February 2008

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"There is a battle going on at the moment between those who believe that biblical criticism is too much in the grip of a secular and skeptical spirit and those who think it has still not managed to escape the hand of ecclesiastical and religious authority." —John Barton (Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Oxford)

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News & Asides
  • A conference entitled Divine Identity Christology in the Gospels: Tyndale House Colloquium has been announced for 11 December 2008 at Tyndale House, Cambridge. It features Professors Richard Bauckham and Richard Hays. Mike Bird has posted schedule details at Euangelion. (more...)
  • Call for Papers: SST/IJST Colin Gunton Memorial Essay Prize 2008, What is theological interpretation?. Closing date: 31 October 2008. (more...)
  • Conference on The Holy Trinity in the Holy Scriptures: Interpreting the Bible for the Church, Tyndale University College, Toronto, from 28–30 May 2008. (more...)
  • Professor M. Bockmuehl announces A Workshop on Early Christian Hopes for Life after Death with N.T. Wright. The free workshop will take place at Keble College, Oxford, on 31 May 2008. Numbers are limited. (more...)
  • The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth, a conference hosted by The Centre of Theology and Philosophy and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham, 19 and 20 June 2008. (more...)