The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible; By Robin Lane Fox By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt “The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God,” Daniel Webster declared more than a century ago. But is the Bible true?… Read More Books of The Times; Viewing the Bible as Truth and Tale (1992)
First posted August 09, 2019 Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. Is religion a force for peace or war? Or to borrow a phrase from the title of Christopher Hitchen’s recent book, God Is Not Great, does religion really poison everything, including the possibility of living in a… Read More Brian Victoria: Holy War – Toward a Holistic Understanding
A struggle within Judaism between universalism and tribalism can be traced much, much further back… This is the time of the author(s) of Second Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament… Second Isaiah teaches the universal existence of God, i.e., not just the God of the Jews but of the whole world. It… Read More The Battle for the Soul of Judaism: Tribalism, Amalek and Axial Age Universalism of Isaiah
NB: If religious texts sanctify hatred and cruelty towards others, there is something wrong with them, and especially with us, for taking such injunctions literally. There is no such thing as my god versus your god, because the creator of the universe cannot possibly have chosen a small fragment of humanity to be regardful of,… Read More Reading the Bible with the eyes of the Canaanites: Neo-Zionism, political theology and the Land Traditions of the Bible (1967 to Gaza 2009)
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