Article: The Quick-Start Beginner's Guide to the Bible.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: BIBLE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      700+ words ...BIBLE A collection of sacred texts usually regarded as a unified...linguistic homogeneity that strengthened perceptions of the Bible as a single text providing an unbroken account of events...Although generally aware of the heterogeneous origins of the Bible, Christians in recent centuries have tended not ...

Article: The Bible in first person.
The Christian Century;  April 3, 2007 ;     374 words ...MANY CHRISTIANS like to think that they take the Bible as it stands, but in reality they take the Bible as they understand it. What we get out of the Bible often has as much to do with what we bring to the text as with the text...

Article: From Moses to Musa.(influence of Bible in literature)
New Criterion;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......ancient Gnostic, Franz Kafka wrote, The Bible, sanctum; the world, sputum. In this formulation...it disparages the world in favor of the Bible, but that it leaves us no in-between we...any attentive reader of Kafka knows, the Bible stands in a subtle continuum with that...

Article: Battle for the Bible: the impasse over slavery: while abolitionists appealed to the spirit of the Bible, proslavery scholars could cite chapter and verse.(slavery in the view of Bible)
The Christian Century;  May 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ......1845, two able theologians debated the Bible's view of slavery in a public event in...L. Rice for the position that while the Bible pointed toward the eventual, voluntary...scripture, to the general principles of the Bible and the whole scope of the Bible, where...

Article: Baptists and the hard part of the Bible.
Baptist History and Heritage;  March 22, 2007 ;     567 words ...The Bible is far more complicated than some Baptists...most difficult thing about understanding the Bible is not the original languages in which it...occurred. That's not the really hard part of the Bible. The most difficult thing about the Bible...

Article: The state of the Bible in the twenty-first century.
Currents in Theology and Mission;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......and trying to attend to the role of the Bible in the life of the Christian church. I just...papers that not only reached back to what the Bible meant but in many cases also reached forward to what the Bible might mean for theology, ethics, and life...

Article: How do I read the Bible? Charlie Brown and friends offer practical insights on this crucial question.
Presbyterian Record;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Smart writes in The Strange Silence of the Bible in the Church, that the mounting ignorance of the contents of the Bible among members of the church ... constitutes...Jesus Christ will always depend on the Bible's witness to him. When memory of the biblical...

Article: The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution.
Contemporary Review;  August 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......adequately is rather like trying to review the Bible on a single sheet of paper. Professor Hill...looking at the influence on society of the Bible in the preceding century when |Lollards...found profoundly subversive messages in the Bible'. But it is the explosive effect of the...

Article: Stumped on hour one: Bible introduction leaves an appetite for more.(Alpha Teach Yourself The Bible in 24 Hours)(Book Review)
Presbyterian Record;  July 1, 2005 ;     449 words ...Alpha Teach Yourself The Bible in 24 Hours W.Terry Whalin Alpha Books...hardest task in this book was picking my Bible. I saw this book sitting on my editor...exactly the thing to introduce me to the Bible and help me gain a nice, rounded experience...

Article: Intimations of transcendence: Karen Armstrong pleads for a compassionate interpretation of the Bible.(The Bible: A Biography)(Book review)
Presbyterian Record;  November 1, 2008 ;     514 words ...The Bible: A Biography Karen Armstrong Atlantic Monthly...essentially two groups do most of the serious Bible reading: Those of us who make it say whatever...notes of Karen Armstrong's 2007 book, The Bible, estimated that more than six billion copies...

Article: Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation.(Book review)
Biblical Theology Bulletin;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation. Edited by Michael...of producing an introduction to the Bible a unique sensitivity to various ways of being Christian and of reading the Bible (pp. vii-viii). The book was developed...

Article: Biblical authority.(modern-day interpretations of the Bible and its authority)(Critical Essay)
The Christian Century;  January 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THE AUTHORITY of the Bible is a perennial and urgent issue for those...interpretation and control. Because the Bible is the live word of the living God, it...proclaiming loud, dogmatic slogans about the Bible, we might do better to consider the odd...

Article: How do you read the Bible?(Preaching Helps)
Currents in Theology and Mission;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Series A. ELCA Lutherans are reading the Bible. While the headline Lutherans vote to read the Bible may have made us look a little silly, I think...assembly, ways your congregation can participate, Bible studies, and other resources. Listening to...

Article: The Bible.
National Review;  November 15, 1993 ;     700+ words ...The Bible, arranged and edited by Ernest Sutherland...Allison (Simon & Schuster, 1,254 pp., $25) THE BIBLE that Simon & Schuster has just released is...instead, an updated version of the expurgated Bible that an author, critic, and former English...