Both Bible believing Christians and critics of the Bible make the same blunder when attempting to make sense of the pieces of ancient literature now called the Bible.
The Bible may be sacred literature for Christians but literature nonetheless and …
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Slavery in the Bible: Michael Abrahams’s Reading Problems
Slavery in the Bible: Michael Abrahams’s Reading Problems
The Bible is probably the only ancient text that any Mike, Mary or Marcia waxes warm about despite stark ignorance of the book’s actual texts, original languages and historical contexts (plural).
The …
Misreading the Bible
The Bible is probably the only ancient text that any Mike, Mary or Marcia waxes warm about despite stark ignorance of the book’s actual texts and historical contexts (plural).
The lay critic may be very educated but (s)he and even …
The Bible, Scholars and ‘Scholarly’ Crap
Wayne Marshall in his column about the Bible in The Observer of December 23, 2014 (Has Religion Seen the End of Its Useful Life?) reflected uncritical reliance on non-specialists in the appropriate academic disciplines and on the thoroughly debunked …