For him, biblical theology was simply historical investigation into the beliefs of the biblical authors as they stand in the text.

They believe instead that God inspired the thoughts of the biblical authors, and that the authors then expressed these thoughts in their own words.

Higher criticism: the study of the sources and literary methods employed by the biblical authors.

Creationist cosmologies thus credit the biblical authors with cosmological knowledge well in advance of their contemporaries in the ancient world.

Also present in the church are 32 statues meant to represent, in a nonspecific manner, the biblical authors.

Many inerrants reject the possibility that biblical authors might have embellished or reworked material.

The two earliest biblical authors, whose work is found in Genesis and Exodus, were probably writing during the eighth century, though some would give them an earlier date.

Many biblical authors draw a strong connection between love of others and love of God.

The biblical authors conceived the cosmos as a flat disc-shaped earth in the centre, an underworld for the dead below, and heaven above.

He seems not to appreciate adequately that biblical authors most often do not state their intentions.