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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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26 Mar 2005 10:42:18 AM |
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Bible |
'Whose Bible Is It?': God Speaks; Man Translates
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/books/review/027KUGELL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JAMES KUGEL
Published: March 27, 2005
Most books about the Bible are principally concerned with how it came
to be and what it meant in its historical context. But -- as readers of
Jaroslav Pelikan's ''Whose Bible Is It?'' will find -- that is really
only the beginning of the Bible's story. Even before the last chapters
of the Hebrew Bible itself had been written, an ancient school of
biblical interpreters had come upon the scene -- the earliest of them
going back to the third century B.C. or so -- and they changed forever
the way the Bible would be read. They (mostly anonymous) were decidedly
not interested in what the stories, laws or prophecies had meant in
their original context. They believed the Bible was a divinely given
guidebook, eternally relevant. What interested them was what it had to
teach people in their own day, and often this meant ignoring history
and digging deeper, trying to find some hidden lesson in the Bible's
words. Sometimes this process involved a great deal of imagination --
reinterpreting a common word or phrase to mean something quite
different from its usual meaning, or even ''deducing'' the existence of
conversations or whole episodes unreported in the Bible itself. They
claimed it was full of teachings only hinted at in its actual words.
WHOSE BIBLE IS IT?
A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages.
By Jaroslav Pelikan.
Illustrated. 274 pp. Viking. $24.95.
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