Friday, April 12, 2013

Consensus

BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Against Consensus (Joel S. Baden). I note that the author criticizes scholars for appealing to consensus without giving specific references. Fair enough, but this essay itself speaks only in generalizations and does not give a single reference, opening itself to the criticism of debunking a straw man.

Via James McGrath, who also comments. There was a discussion about consensus among the biblioblogs in 2005, but most of the links are now gone. My thoughts are here and here.

UPDATE: Mark Goodacre's posts are now here and here. Mark also has reminded me of another brief post of mine in the thread.