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 so must be read, basically, as one would read any piece of literature responsibly (ancient or modern)….
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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 lay critic may be very educated but (s)he and even most Christians need to understand…
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 most Christians need to understand how to read an ancient text from a different linguistic…
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 documentary hypothesis or 4-source theory of Old Testament scholarship via the writers he named. It is…