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  • 10 - Pictures of Justification

  • from Part IV - Prototypes of Hebraic Philosophical Arguments
  • Dru Johnson
  • Book:
    Biblical Philosophy
    Published online:
    13 April 2021
    Print publication:
    22 April 2021, pp 288-307

  • Summary

    When assessing epistemic justification in the biblical narratives, we must consider how much the author reveals about justification in the text itself, and, only then, what types of justification appear to be employed by the characters. There are at least three possible type-scenes used across these texts to justify a conclusion: tests, ouija, and witnesses.In this chapter, I review the twentieth-century discussions of logical necessity and justification and how the biblical authors employ means of justification similar, but not identical, to scientific inquiry.