The Importance of Reading Biblical Texts to Address Real Life on the Ground Matters

Jared: Reading texts to address contemporary real life on the ground matters is not a distortion of hermeneutics of biblical or reading biblical texts. We're looking at how can we engage this text to address a real life ethical issue that people are, I think, becoming more and more aware of. "What makes the Bible the word of God isn't the words on the page," said James Kugel who was Jared's doctoral advisor.