James Barr Quotes

James Barr was a liberal Scottish Old Testament scholar, known for his contribution on how vocabulary and structure of the Hebrew language may reflect a particular theological mindset. At the University of Oxford, he was the Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1976 to 1978, and the Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1978 to 1989. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. March 1924 – 14. October 2006
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Famous James Barr Quotes

“This book is therefore consecrated to the deeper and fuller study of that linguistic world in which the Hebrew Bible is set.”

Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, p. 304

“Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.”

Letter to David C.C. Watson, 23 April 1984. Quoted from https://answersingenesis.org/ https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/oxford-hebrew-scholar-professor-james-barr-meaning-of-genesis/


link https://web.archive.org/web/20170612180930/http://members.iinet.com.au:80/~sejones/barrlett.html Source: The authenticity of this letter is not verified yet.

“We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms.”

Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, p. 10

“The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.”

The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible, p. 92

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