I then exchanged letters with my former Dean at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Kenneth Kantzer, who defended Osborne's approach. Its relevance to Osborne's latest article should make it of more than routine interest to evangelical readers.
Inerrancy becomes a totally plastic concept at the mercy of the critical hermeneutic.
But I do hold that such influence cannot, consistent with an inerrant view of Scripture, modify the substantive, factual character of biblical assertions. It is precisely here that the discussion of the ipsissima verba becomes confused. For example, the Aramaic problem you raise is totally irrelevant. By ipsissima verba is meant an accurate record of what Jesus in fact said. Take Osborne's example of the Great Commission.