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Although many conservative scholars have had reservations about biblical criticism since its rise a century ago, Carl Armerding contends that critical rationalism need not be antithetical to belief in a divinely inspired Word of God. Indeed, says Armerding, the evangelical scholar -- mediating the traditional conservative view and the rational critical view of Scripture -- is able to use all the tools of historical, philological, and literary study, while still retaining biblical categories of revelation, inspiration, and history.

Armerding applies this synthesis of approaches -- the traditional and the critical -- to four major branches of criticism: literary (or source) criticism, form criticism, structural analysis, and textual criticism. Cautioning against misuse of these critical methods, he demonstrates how each method can be conscientiously used by faithful scholars to enrich their understanding of the Old Testament text. Of great value to scholars, students, and pastors, Armerding's work promises to enrich study of the Old Testament much as George Eldon Ladd's book (The New Testament and Criticism) has enriched study of the New.

W. Ward Gasque served as the first E. Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, provost of Eastern College in Philadelphia, and Academic Dean of Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is currently President of Pacific Association for Biblical Studies in Seattle. He is the NT editor of the New International Biblical Commentary (Hendrickson).
Carl E. Armerding is the former president and professor of Old Testament at Regent College, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is currently academic mentor in Old Testament studies to students associated with the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in Oxford, England and Academic Director of Schloss Mittersill Study Centre in Austria. He is the author of The Old Testament and Criticism (Eerdmans).