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(4) | None | "The Bible...is a locked treasure for those unfamiliar with the Scriptures....Beal offers a key with his accessible guide." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "With skill and insight, Timothy Beal has given us a great gift: a lucid and engaging introduction to the most important book ever published." --Jon Meacham, author of American Lion, winner of the Pulitzer Prize In the tradition of Stephen Prothero's Religious Literacy, and with the deftness of Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue, Timothy Beal's Biblical Literacy is a one-stop course in the Bible passages and background information that everyone needs to know to navigate our nuanced cultural landscape--from devout believers to decided atheists, average citizens to pop-culture aficionados. Like Religion in America, Religion and its Monsters, and other of his highly acclaimed books, Beal's Biblical Literacy is a must-have handbook for understanding today's world.… (more) |
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When Fredrick Douglass's master discovered that his wife, Mistress Sophie, was teaching this eight-year old slave to read the Bible, he sternly forbade her to do so again: "If he learns to read teh Bible it will ever unfit him to be a slave," he said, and in no time "he'll be running away with himself." | |
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Words are powerful; they shape our world and make it meaningful. Here, in the first words of Genesis, the first book of the Torah, the world is literally spoken into being: "Let there be light." The Hebrew is even more direct: yehi 'or, "it's light." And there was light. And so it begins, a world of words whose meanings are as rich as they are open to interpretation. | |
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None ▾Book descriptions "The Bible...is a locked treasure for those unfamiliar with the Scriptures....Beal offers a key with his accessible guide." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "With skill and insight, Timothy Beal has given us a great gift: a lucid and engaging introduction to the most important book ever published." --Jon Meacham, author of American Lion, winner of the Pulitzer Prize In the tradition of Stephen Prothero's Religious Literacy, and with the deftness of Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue, Timothy Beal's Biblical Literacy is a one-stop course in the Bible passages and background information that everyone needs to know to navigate our nuanced cultural landscape--from devout believers to decided atheists, average citizens to pop-culture aficionados. Like Religion in America, Religion and its Monsters, and other of his highly acclaimed books, Beal's Biblical Literacy is a must-have handbook for understanding today's world. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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