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'''''Ipsissima Vox''''' is a Latin expression meaning "the very voice", and describes the view that the [[New Testament]] Gospel-accounts capture the concepts that [[Jesus]] expressed, but not exact words. ''Ipsissima Vox'' is contrasted with ''Ispissima Verba'', meaning "the very words". {{stub}} == Arguments for ''Ipsissima Vox'' == # Jesus probably spoke mostly Aramaic, so most of what we have recorded in the gospels is already a translation. # Jesus probably spent hours teaching, yet most of the didactic passages in the gospels take mere minutes to read. # The gospel writers do not agree word-for-word in many parallel passages, but rather thought-for-thought. == Arguments against ''Ipsissima Vox'' == # It opens the door for doubt in the doctrines of the inerrancy, sufficiency, and clarity of Scripture. # It questions the ability of the Holy Spirit to enable the gospel writers to recall the words of Jesus. # It fails to account for Luke's assertion in Luke 1:4 ("...that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught." ESV) and Jesus' claim in John 14:26 ("But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." ESV) == Proponents of ''Ipsissima Vox'' == * [[Daniel Wallace]] (a paper presented at the 1999 annual ETS meeting presented titled "An Apologia for a Broad View of ''Ipsissima Vox''" - online text unavailable) * [[Grant Osborne]] * [[Darrell Bock]] == Critics of ''Ipsissima Vox'' == * Donald E. Green * Robert N. Wilkin * John W. Montgomery == Resources == * "The Words of Jesus in the Gospels: Live, Jive, or Memorex?" by [[Darrell Bock]] in ''Jesus Under Fire'', eds. [[Michael Wilkins]] and [[J.P. Moreland]] (Zondervan, 1995) ISBN 0310211395 == External links == === Favorable === * [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_criticism_osborne.html Historical Criticism And The Evangelical], by Grant Osborne (''JETS'') === Critical === * [http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj12d.pdf Evangelicals and ''Ipsissima Vox''] (PDF), by Donald Green * [http://www.faithalone.org/journal/2001i/wilkin.html Toward a Narrow View of ''Ipsissima Vox''], by Robert Wilkin * [http://www.trinitysem.edu/journal/jwm_ad_osborne.html Evangelicals and Biblical Criticism: The Continuing Saga], by John Montgomery [[Category:Bible]]

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