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The Last Pillar: Communal Literature – Paradigm E11

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The Democracy of Biblical Religion

In jewish communities, the scroll is open. The word that connects god's people to the story of what god's doing in our mitt is an open scroll. In most greek and roman religious communities of that day, it was available to the few. This communal nature of biblical literature isn't just limited to the hebrew bible. There's a story about jesus doing a public reading of the scroll of isaiah when he goes to nazar. When paul started writing letters to local communities of the messiah, he says one letter would arrive for colossians,. But this is interesting to fall back on as i'm trying to meditate on how

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