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Any suggestions for some good books to read on the reliability of scripture?
 
Here are some very brief books on the subject:

Pope Benedict XV, Spiritus Paraclitus

Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis

Pope Pius X, Lamentabili Sane

Pope Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus

Pope Pius XII, Divino Afflante Spiritu

Vatican II, Dei Verbum
 
I like On the Reliability of the Old Testament by Kenneth Kitchen, he is a Protestant, but his take on the Old Testament is very refreshing compare to most modern scholarship. He is a very respected Egyptologist and perhaps the foremost person on the New Kingdom period. And much of his theories are sound in the archaeological record of the ancient near east. Also, he is pretty readable compared to many other books out there.

I have been trying to read On the Reliability of the New Testament by Craig Blomberg, another Protestant, it is a little too scholarly in my opinion, but there is a lot of good information.

If you want a Catholic approach, you can read Fr. Raymond Brown is really the foremost Biblical scholar in the American Church, now I avoid reading most of his OT commentary, but he does generally do a good job with the Gospels and stay Orthodox there. Unfortunately right now, there is a dearth of scholarly interest among Catholics clerics and laypeople writing about the reliability of the Biblical texts, typically the Church does follow modern scholarship in terms of the books were developed.

Now, I mentioned Kitchen above, if you want you can read his archnemesis David Rohl, who wants to prove the Bible right by redoing the entire chronology of the ancient near east by 250 years, for instance he wants to identify Sheshonq with Ramses II rather than Shishak. And he wants to make David and Saul contemporary with King Tut and Akenaten.
 
I read a book not too long ago called the Bible as History
 
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Any suggestions for some good books to read on the reliability of scripture?
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Right to your question: *Biblical Fundamentalism, What Every Catholic Should Know *(imprimatur & nihil obstat) by Ronald Witherup S.S.

The Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Bible by the Pontifical Biblical Commission and Pope Paul VI (available online).

And God Said What?: An Introduction to Biblical Literary Forms by Margaret Ralph. Used in many parish adult scripture classes.
 
also I have a book called Understanding the Catholic faith. I doubt that anyone could find a new one these days. In part one it deals with the Bible and the Church exclusively and Part II is the revised edition of the Baltimore Catechism 3. Copyright is 1941, 1949 and 1954 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine with a Nihil Obstat by Francis J. Connell, C.SS.R and Imprimatur by Edwin V. O’Hara Archbishop of Kansas City and is published by Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame Indiana.
 
The Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Bible by the Pontifical Biblical Commission and Pope Paul VI (available online).
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I’m pretty sure Pat G was referring to this document. Click on the “text of the PBC document” to jump to it.

I haven’t read Henry Graham’s Where We Got the Bible yet, but it might be a good source, too.

God bless your studies,

Ruthie
 
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