A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible Swenson Kristin
A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible Swenson Kristin The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. But how well do we really know it? It is read…
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A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible Swenson Kristin
The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. But how well do we really know it? 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.
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. The Bible is so familiar, so ubiquitous that we have begun to take our knowledge of it for granted. 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