THE TRAVAIL OF BIBLICAL LANGUAGE - Gilkey

 And for all of us, a contemporary understanding of ancient Scriptures depends as much on a careful analysis of our present presuppositions as it does on being learned in the religion and faith of the past.

COSMOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, AND THE TRAVAIL OF BIBLICAL LANGUAGE Langdon B. Gilkey 

From Owen Thomas, ed. God’s Activity in the World: The Contemporary Problem AAR Studies in Religion 31. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981.