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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: What’s in it for me? Get a new, illuminating perspective on history’s most famous text.
Chapter 2: The Bible is the most popular book of all time, yet it’s often misunderstood.
Chapter 3: The stories of the Bible are ones of progress and change.
Chapter 4: The Bible reflects humanity while pointing to the divine.
Chapter 5: Biblical violence illustrates progress toward peace.
Chapter 6: The Bible is rife with contradiction, representing the differing views of its authors and the contexts in which they wrote.
Chapter 7: A literal reading of the Bible leaves much to be desired.
Chapter 8: We can learn much more from the Bible by studying it with curiosity.
Chapter 9: The Bible can have transformative power if we embrace it for what it is.
Description
What Is the Bible? (2017) takes a fresh look at the best-selling book of all time: the Holy Bible. These blinks take the Bible for what it is – a conglomeration of books written by real people in real historical contexts that are at once subversive, timeless and transformative.
Who Should Listen
- Christians and non-Christians interested in learning about the Bible
- Those who have left the Church
- People with a negative view of religion who are open to new perspectives