Knight again: “autonomous exegesis that does not stay in conversation with doctrine and philosophy cannot read Israel’s Scriptures as a political-cosmological world-claim. Without learning from doctrine and political philosophy, would-be exegetes of the Bible are unlikely to understand Israel’s cosmology as a public claim to commandeer, transform, and reemploy the world.”

Again: “Can autonomous biblical studies represent anything but a claim to be able to divide the one work and creation of God into the separate and autonomous realms of nature, on the one hand, and the intellectual, cultural, and religious realms of subjectivity, on the other? Such an academic project divides the people of Israel from their king, the body from the head, the people from their theological purpose and eschatological determination. It divides the indivisible work of God.”