Saving the Bible from ourselves : learning to read and live the Bible well /

Paauw, Glenn R., 1958-

Saving the Bible from ourselves : learning to read and live the Bible well / [print] Glenn R. Paauw. - Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references.

Embarking -- Our complicated Bible -- Unveiling the elegant Bible -- Our snacking Bible -- Savoring the feasting Bible -- Our the gods must be crazy Bible -- Finding God in the historical Bible -- Our de-dramatized Bible -- Rediscovering the storiented Bible -- Performing the storiented Bible -- Our otherworldly Bible -- Grounded in the earthly Bible -- My private Bible -- Sharing our synagogue Bible -- Our ugly Bible -- Beholding the iconic Bible -- Return.

Does the Bible need to be saved? Over the course of the centuries, Bible scholars and publishers have increasingly added "helps"--Chapter divisions, verses, subheads, notes --



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Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible--Reading.


Electronic books.

BS476.P113.S285 2016 BS476