By Attridge, H.W., VanderKam, J.C.
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We speak often of the canonization of the Scriptures and we do well. But what lies behind that word in any official or eccle- Cadbury: Motives of Biblical Scholarship 35 siastical sense is a changed presupposition with which the casual products of an earlier age come to enjoy a different regard from their readers. What the special treatment of the Bible books has done for the understanding or misunderstanding of them is a subject that would take long to summarize. It has affected even the transmission of their text, perhaps more for the better than for the worse.
Both phenomena may be witnessed in the English Bible. A glance at any Concordance will reveal how one and the same English word is used for sundry Hebrew and Greek synonyms; and as to foregoing uniformity of phrasing in the English, the Revisers of 1611 are quite explicit on this point: “That we should express the same notion in the same particular words; as for example, if we translate the Hebrew or Greek word once by purpose, never to call it intent: if one where journeying, never travelling; if one where think, never suppose; if one where pain, never ache; if one where joy, never gladness, etc.
You would resent the idea that you have any special or less scientific aim. Yet I fancy that even today much of the best scholarly work in our fields is combined with a strong religious, not to say apologetic, prepossession. It may not be the preposses- 38 Presidential Voices sion of the past, it may be a prepossession that is itself the result of independent and untrammeled and unorthodox scholarship, but it is a prepossession none the less.