
Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently
The Bible For Normal People
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The Book of Psalms
This is the bringing of this ancient text into our present moment. It's not only historical statements, its entire books like the book of psalms. A whole book's shape changes as a result of understanding it prophetically. Paul turns story of sarah and hagar into ancomplete allegory. And here we have to worry about what paul is doing. If christians today are confused by paul's re deployment of what gets what the christians would call the old testament, you can imagine how his first converts felt.
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