Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by Brandon J. O'Brien, E. Randolph Richards

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

Brandon J. O'Brien, E. Randolph Richards

240 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction religion reflective slow-paced
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What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example:When Western rea...

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