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Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently

The Bible For Normal People

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Is the Quotation Mark Beginning With, in the Wilderness Wa From Yo Qaas the Assura?

This particular passage from isaiah forty really opened up for the church. It got a kind of background to john the baptist out there in the wilderness proclaiming the way, but when the text goes from hebrew into greek, and it's the greek, primarily, that the writers of the new testament are using. And we see that even to day, where were books that, you know, we might have read with no problem 50 years ago, at least for those of us who were that old? We've got a different context by which to understand literature, whether for better or for worse. There's no such thing as an uninterpreted bible - unless just sits on

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