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Apr 4, 2019 · John Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and when, what we know - and what we cannot know - about their...
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Jun 4, 2019 · In A History of the Bible, John Barton argues that the Bible is not a prescription to a complete, fixed religious system, but rather a product of a long and intriguing process, which has...
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introduction to the Bible rather than to the academic study of the Bible, the one cannot be divorced from the other. Questions such as, ‘What is the Bible?’, ‘Who wrote it, where, when and why?’, ‘How close are our translations to what the biblical writ ers wrote?’, ‘Who decided what would
John Barton hopes that we will get a sense of how endlessly fascinating and intriguing the Bible is, whether or not we accept its religious claims. * A trans-literation conveys the meaning of the text, but not ‘word for word’.
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The Bible didn’t fall out of heaven all at once. Instead, the Bible is a product of thousands of years of oral traditions, written documents, and meticulous curation, arranging, and editing. The Bible we have today came together piece by piece, slowly accumulating more material as the Jewish and Christian faiths matured.