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Bible as Politics, The – The Rape of Dinah and other stories

Parker, Andrew
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781780992495
Published
2013-06-28
Publisher
Collective Ink
Weight
206 gr
Height
217 mm
Width
162 mm
Thickness
11 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
192

Author
Parker, Andrew

Biographical note

Andrew Parker left a promising career in the Church and began a life as a manual worker, first in France, then Castlemilk, Glasgow and laterly in London where he still lives in Tower Hamlets. However, he has never given up on the Bible, believing it to be a book which, today more than ever, has much to teach us.

Bible as Politics, The – The Rape of Dinah and other stories

Parker, Andrew
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
Parker, Andrew
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
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Kathy Galloway - Andrew Parker s readings of familiar biblical texts as presenting a marginal, political, ideological Hebrew worldview, profoundly in opposition to the status quo (then and now both) is contentious, illuminating and genuinely challenging. He stimulates in his readers; dialogue and questioning, sometimes agreement and often fury, but always passionate engagement. This in itself makes this book worth reading. But it is, equally, a valuable discipline in struggling to SEE from a very different perspective than the one we usually allow ourselves when reading the Bible.

If you suspect the Biblical writers were onto something, but aren't convinced by the sentimental religion-of-love talk you hear so much nowadays, then maybe you will find hope reading this book. Did you know that the Creation Myths in the Bible were copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths? Or that the Moses story was based on a bloke called Sargon? Or that the story of Job is all to do with politics? Or that the two loaves, five fishes and the number 153 have symbolic meanings? These are just a few of the issues addressed in this controversial book which is not for people who like their God as Indefinable Mystery.
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A controversial and radical study of the Bible portraying it as a political rather than religious book.

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Kathy Galloway - Andrew Parker s readings of familiar biblical texts as presenting a marginal, political, ideological Hebrew worldview, profoundly in opposition to the status quo (then and now both) is contentious, illuminating and genuinely challenging. He stimulates in his readers; dialogue and questioning, sometimes agreement and often fury, but always passionate engagement. This in itself makes this book worth reading. But it is, equally, a valuable discipline in struggling to SEE from a very different perspective than the one we usually allow ourselves when reading the Bible.

If you suspect the Biblical writers were onto something, but aren't convinced by the sentimental religion-of-love talk you hear so much nowadays, then maybe you will find hope reading this book. Did you know that the Creation Myths in the Bible were copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths? Or that the Moses story was based on a bloke called Sargon? Or that the story of Job is all to do with politics? Or that the two loaves, five fishes and the number 153 have symbolic meanings? These are just a few of the issues addressed in this controversial book which is not for people who like their God as Indefinable Mystery.
Read more
A controversial and radical study of the Bible portraying it as a political rather than religious book.

Product details

ISBN
9781780992495
Published
2013-06-28
Publisher
Collective Ink
Weight
206 gr
Height
217 mm
Width
162 mm
Thickness
11 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
192

Author
Parker, Andrew

Biographical note

Andrew Parker left a promising career in the Church and began a life as a manual worker, first in France, then Castlemilk, Glasgow and laterly in London where he still lives in Tower Hamlets. However, he has never given up on the Bible, believing it to be a book which, today more than ever, has much to teach us.

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