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How to Read the Bible : history, prophecy, literature-- why modern readers need to know the difference, and what it means for faith today / Steven L. McKenzie.

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 207 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195161491
  • 9780195161496
  • 9780195383300
  • 0195383303
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 220.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BS475.3 .M38 2005
Other classification:
  • 11.33
  • B971
  • BC 6080
Contents:
Introduction: Jonah and genre -- Not exactly as it happened : historiography in the Bible -- Forthtelling, nor foretelling : biblical prophecy -- Life's real questions : wisdom literature and the Bible -- Not the end of the world as we know it : wisdom literature in the Bible -- Issues in the churches : the letters of the New Testament.
Summary: Those who believe in the literal truth of the Bible and those who fundamentally distrust it are at opposite ends of the belief spectrum. Steven McKenzie argues that both camps are operating under a basic misunderstanding of the nature of the texts collected in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) BS 475.3 .M38 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 128782

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.

Introduction: Jonah and genre -- Not exactly as it happened : historiography in the Bible -- Forthtelling, nor foretelling : biblical prophecy -- Life's real questions : wisdom literature and the Bible -- Not the end of the world as we know it : wisdom literature in the Bible -- Issues in the churches : the letters of the New Testament.

Those who believe in the literal truth of the Bible and those who fundamentally distrust it are at opposite ends of the belief spectrum. Steven McKenzie argues that both camps are operating under a basic misunderstanding of the nature of the texts collected in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.

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