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expositions-1954	none	Digging Down and Reaching Out: A Story of Biblical Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century	2015	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3203	190	51	Moreover, also in keeping with the intellectual mood of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they were optimistic, in retrospect even overconfident, operating on the assured conviction that with sufficient data and careful analysis of the data an objective, accurate, and complete understanding of the Bible was possible.10 Since the mid-twentieth century, however, and especially since the last quarter of that century, many began to view the (by then) traditional historical modes of engaging biblical texts as far too limited. As those scholars who developed the edifice of the historical-critical model were “experts in a variety of fields,” so too do contemporary scholars study, master, and use tools from a variety of academic specializations to ask new questions of biblical texts.	cache/expositions-1954.pdf	txt/expositions-1954.txt