Cultural Handbook to the Bible BISAC-HIS004000 All I had to do

All I had to do was land the position as an intern and nail my interview with Bruce Chamberson

Published: 01/01/2019

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Cultural Handbook to the Bible BISAC-HIS004000 All I had to doThe task of interpreting the Bible which was written by and to people living in very different cultural contexts from contemporary Western society can seem monumental. The opposite is also true: people can easily forget that studying the Bible is a type of cross cultural encounter, instead reading their own cultural assumptions into biblical texts. In A Cultural Handbook to the Bible John Pilch bridges this cultural divide by translating important