Talk:Intertestamental period

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This article was nominated for deletion on December 20, 2005. The result of the discussion was NO CONSENSUS. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

[edit] POV problem

One problem with this article is that it has as its premise the notion that no books of the Bible were written during this time. In point of fact, those books that were written during this time were only removed from the Bible by Protestants well after the Reformation; the King James Version of 1611 had them up until sometime in the 1700s. So whether there was a long 'intertestamental period' depends on whether one accepts the deuterocanonical books. I'm surprised that this didn't seem to come up during the original debate over its deletion.

Related to this, some believe that the entire Bible was divinely inspired, some that only the Old Testament was inspired, some that most of the Bible (except the "Apocrypha") was inspired, and many believe that none of it was inspired. Some of the remarks regarding inspiration ought to reflect this diversity of beliefs. Wesley 17:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC)