In my recent column ‘Read the Bible Literarily NOT LITERALLY’, printed in both the Jamaica Observer and the Jamaica Gleaner on Tuesday February 4 instant, I stressed the need to recognize various literary features of the kinds of literature in …
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Clinton Chisholm | Read The Bible Literarily NOT LITERALLY
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 …
Reading Ancient Texts Responsibly
For Drs. Ethon Lowe, Michael Abrahams and others
Though many (learned and unlearned folk) seem not be aware of it, there is an academic version of the biblical “believe not every spirit…” It is “double-check all sources.” I ‘push up’ myself …
Reading Puzzling Accounts in the Bible Meaningfully
Puzzling text #1 – Gen. 22 (The call to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac)
We begin our series of puzzling texts with that account with Abraham and Isaac that baffles and horrifies even seasoned Christians.
I saw a non-Christian comedy cartoon …