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100 1 _aOndich, Jody
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aReading the Bible as Literature
_bA Journey
_cJody Ondich
264 2 _aMinneapolis, MN
_bOpen Textbook Library
264 1 _aMinnesota
_bMinnesota State Colleges and Universities
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2022.
300 _a1 online resource
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aOpen textbook library.
505 0 _aIntroduction to This Text -- How to approach reading the Bible -- A Timeline for the Bible -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- I. Where and how did it all start? -- II. The Torah -- III. The Prophets: Neviim -- IV. The writings: Ketuvim -- V. Beginnings of the Christian Writings -- VI. The Gospels -- VII. The Earliest Christians -- VIII. Apocalypse -- Contact Me
520 0 _aThe Bible is one of the most published books in human history. It is also one of the most misquoted, misunderstood and misused books in human history. This happens because people are not always aware that the Bible is not a book, it is a collection of diverse writings. The Bible might even be called an anthology, and it will include everything from poetry to genealogy, pithy sayings to architectural mandates, mythology to letters. Knowing what one is reading helps one understand the ideas in the writings. We read letters in the context of who wrote them and who received them. We read sermons understanding the speaker's perspective may differ from the listener's perspective. So this text is an attempt to give historic, literary, geographical and cultural context to a complex and often poorly understood set of materials. This is very much an ebook, and needs to be used in that format. Pdfs and other printed versions will lose a great deal of the content.
542 1 _fAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on print resource
650 0 _aReligion
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650 0 _aRhetoric
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710 2 _aOpen Textbook Library
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856 4 0 _uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1225
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