Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. It is read with intense devotion by hundreds of millions of people, stands as authoritative for Judaism and Christianity, and informs and affects the politics and lives of the religious and non-religious around the world. But how well do we really know it? The Bible is so familiar, so ubiquitous that we have begun to take our knowledge of it for granted. The Bible many of us think we know is a pale imitation of the real thing. In A Most Peculiar Book, Kristin Swenson addresses the dirty little secret of biblical studies that the Bible is a weird book. It is full of surprises and contradictions, unexplained impossibilities, intriguing supernatural creatures, and heroes doing horrible deeds. It does not provide a simple worldview: what "the Bible says" on a given topic is multi-faceted, sometimes even contradictory. Yet, Swenson argues, we have a tendency to reduce the complexities of the Bible to aphorisms, bumper stickers, and slogans. Swenson helps readers look at the text with fresh eyes. A collection of ancient stories and poetry written by multiple authors, held together by the tenuous string of tradition, the Bible often undermines our modern assumptions. And is all the more marvelous and powerful for it. Rather than dismiss the Bible as an outlandish or irrelevant relic of antiquity, Swenson leans into the messiness full-throttle. Making ample room for discomfort, wonder, and weirdness, A Most Peculiar Book guides readers through a Bible that will feel, to many, brand new.… (lisätietoja)
Did I learn lots of new things from this book? Well, no. I have taken her advice in advance over several decades. I have read the whole Bible through several times. (Somebody always slips a few things in that certainly weren't in there the last time.) I have read it in various translations, and even tried to get to grips with the 'original'. I have read lots of books about the Bible. I had not picked up on some of the details, but the general idea is nothing new to me.
However there is a lot to be said for reading something you know in a form that is well written and well organized. "Oh, yes, now why hadn't I thought of expressing that this way?" Again and again she gives me new ways to express my own thoughts about these things. And I love the way she depicts the oddities and contradictions in the Bible as something to celebrate ( )
Luther's call to live 'By Scripture Alone' is fundamental to many expressions of the Christian church today. Kristin Swenson takes this seriously, but then observes that a mere literal reading of the Bible can be disturbing. The Bible reveals many inconsistencies and contradictions. One writer exhorts turning swords into ploughs, while another, ploughs into swords. Swenson's call is "approach the text in the most generous and open-minded way. Think for yourself with the best information available." Good advice written with clarity and wit. ( )
The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. It is read with intense devotion by hundreds of millions of people, stands as authoritative for Judaism and Christianity, and informs and affects the politics and lives of the religious and non-religious around the world. But how well do we really know it? The Bible is so familiar, so ubiquitous that we have begun to take our knowledge of it for granted. The Bible many of us think we know is a pale imitation of the real thing. In A Most Peculiar Book, Kristin Swenson addresses the dirty little secret of biblical studies that the Bible is a weird book. It is full of surprises and contradictions, unexplained impossibilities, intriguing supernatural creatures, and heroes doing horrible deeds. It does not provide a simple worldview: what "the Bible says" on a given topic is multi-faceted, sometimes even contradictory. Yet, Swenson argues, we have a tendency to reduce the complexities of the Bible to aphorisms, bumper stickers, and slogans. Swenson helps readers look at the text with fresh eyes. A collection of ancient stories and poetry written by multiple authors, held together by the tenuous string of tradition, the Bible often undermines our modern assumptions. And is all the more marvelous and powerful for it. Rather than dismiss the Bible as an outlandish or irrelevant relic of antiquity, Swenson leans into the messiness full-throttle. Making ample room for discomfort, wonder, and weirdness, A Most Peculiar Book guides readers through a Bible that will feel, to many, brand new.
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However there is a lot to be said for reading something you know in a form that is well written and well organized. "Oh, yes, now why hadn't I thought of expressing that this way?" Again and again she gives me new ways to express my own thoughts about these things. And I love the way she depicts the oddities and contradictions in the Bible as something to celebrate (