 According to traditional Christian perspectives, on the other hand, divine inspiration is an essential condition for divine authorship (see, e.g., Feingold 2016: 284). This is true of traditional Catholic as well as Protestant views, which both assume a pervasive divine guidance that extends to all parts of the biblical text and guarantees the aptness of the authors’ choice of words (without necessarily involving “dictation”). Traditional views also presume that inspiration entails inerrancy—that is, freedom from errors in all respects, not just with respect to essential contents (Burtchaell 1969: 1–2; for a critique of inerrancy, see Abraham 1981: Ch. 1). 