It is hard to deny that in many respects the Bible is the most unliterary work of literature that we have. Saint Augustine, already in the late fourth century AD, confessed that biblical style ...
TUPELO – What is the Bible? Is it a narrative? A history? A manual for life? “There are several different ways to approach the Bible,” said the Rev. Chris McAlilly, pastor of Oxford University United ...
It is, from a marketing standpoint, a publishing miracle. The Bible remains one of the best selling books in the world -- more people have read it than any other text. It's been printed in every ...
Recent theological commentary disputes the popular notion that conservative Christians interpret the Bible strictly literally. Scholars emphasize that biblical inerrancy hinges on accurate ...
Biblical material pervades the works of English literature. Bible stories have been retold, recast and reinterpreted. Biblical images have lent their resonance and biblical phrases their rhetorical ...
Chris Wilson is crazy about comics. So when he came across “The Manga Bible,” a comics-style adaptation of the Scriptures, he was definitely interested. He persuaded his pastor at South Street ...
Much of Robert Alter`s most recent book on the Hebrew Bible is devoted to making its title explicable-even possible. Can we have anything that might be called literature in a collection of texts ...
Biblical scholarship was revolutionized in the 19th Century when, in the glow of the Enlightenment, enormous intellectual energy was invested in the development of historical-critical methods that ...
THE prevalent optimism concerning the present condition of American education as a whole is broken by an almost unanimous confession of failure in one particular. The typical young American of to-day, ...