Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. He is the author of Whose Bible Is It? The History of the Scriptures Through the Ages [Viking/Penguin].
Textual authority was a revolutionary idea in the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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