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The Authority of Scripture: Normative or Incidental? - by J. Christiaan Beker, Theology Today 49.3 (1992) 376-382
The Authority of the Bible - by Phyllis A. Bird, pp. 33-64 in New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 1 (Abingdon, 1994)

Biblical Preaching in Babel - by Barbara K. Lundblad, Currents in Theology and Mission (August 2003)
Scripture: Recent Protestant and Catholic Views - by Avery Dulles, S.J., Theology Today 37.1 (1980)
Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 1 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 225-39

How God Inspired the Bible: Thoughts for the Present Disquiet - by J. Paterson Smyth, Kingstown, Ireland, 1892
Inspiration - by Gerald H. Wilson, Azusa Pacific University; originally published in Eerdmans Bible Dictionary
Locus and Mode of Inspiration - by Paul J. Achtemeier, chapter 1 (pp. 8-27) in Inspiration and Authority: Nature and Function of Christian Scripture (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1999)
On Inspiration - by Ignacio Gotz, Cross Currents (Winter 1998)
Persuasive Rhetoric in Divine Inspiration - by Gary V. Smith, Didaskalia 8.2 (1997) 60-74; abstract
"The Battle for the Bible" Rages On - by Donald W. Dayton, Theology Today 37.1 (1980)

Carr, David M., Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature (Oxford, 2005)
- Reviewed by Itamar Singer, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
- Reviewed by James Sanders, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
Sawyer, John F. A., Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts - reviewed by Edward G. Mathews, Jr., Review of Biblical Literature

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