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At 12:45 AM 2009-11-02, you wrote: P- Just quick thought, Friends. I think that we get into trouble whenever we 'either-or' things -- in this case, literal or
Hi James: I agree Karen Armstrong is fabulous, and I understand your points about her (perhaps) faulty interpretation of "literalism". What I am getting from
What strikes me about both of these assumptions about the transition from an oral to a written Bible, is that they are assumptions. No one can know what
Another explanation is that memory of ancient verbally transmitted wisdom was fading and it was felt by some necessary to prevent this wisdom being lost by
I have been reading Karen Armstrong's book "The Bible" and learning a great deal. She is just fab! What struck me in the first chapter was the focus on story