Piper - Driscoll Slapdown: Would you love “The Meaning of the Pentateuch”?
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- Posted on: Wed, November 11, 2009
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A little fun loving going on between Mark Driscoll and John Piper over, of all things, the Pentateuch...
(And for those of you who say that we never talk about anything "Bible" here at MMI, you're wrong).
(And yes, I do know what the Pentateuch is).
Anyway, John Sailhamer has a new book out entitled "The Meaning of the Pentateach". Here's what Driscoll had to say about it:
Only the hardcore uber geek theological types who love footnotes will care, but John Sailhamer's The Meaning of the Pentateuch & Andreas Kostenberger's A Theology of John's Gospels & Letters were just released. For both of you - enjoy.
That got a quick reponse back from John Piper at his blog:
Emphatically, no. To all pastors and serious readers of the Old Testament—geek, uber geek, under geek, no geek—if you graduated from high school and know the word "m e a n i n g," sell your latest Piper or Driscoll book and buy Sailhamer.
There is nothing like it. It will rock your world. You will never read the "Pentateuch" the same again. It is totally readable. You can skip all the footnotes and not miss a beat.
So... without reading the book (I doubt many of you have yet)... whose are you guessing is right on this one? John Piper with "it will rock your world" or Mark Driscoll with "you'd have to be a uber geek" to enjoy this book?
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