Revealed Testimony in Saadya Gaon, al-Ghazali, & Thomas Aquinas KU Leuven
In the Abrahamic faiths, God speaks. If God is a speaker, then theories of inspiration or textual revelation are fundamentally testimonial. Since testimony is knowledge obtained by hearing (and believing) what a speaker says or writes, testimony (and subsequently Scripture) has been historically deemed an inferior form of evidence compared to immediate personal experience and reason. This is particularly relevant for thinkers in Judaism, ...