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How to Read the Bible - History, Prophecy, Literature-Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today (Paperback)
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How to Read the Bible - History, Prophecy, Literature-Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today (Paperback)
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McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible we must grasp the
intentions of the biblical authors themselves--what sort of texts
they thought they were writing and how they would have been
understood by their intended audience. In short, we must recognize
the genres to which these texts belong. McKenzie examines several
genres that are typically misunderstood, offering careful readings
of specific texts to show how the confusion arises, and how knowing
the genre produces a correct reading. The book of Jonah, for
example, offers many clues that it is meant as a humorous satire,
not a straight-faced historical account of a man who was swallowed
by a fish. Likewise, McKenzie explains that the very names "Adam"
and "Eve" tell us that these are not historical characters, but
figures who symbolize human origins ("Adam" means man, "Eve" is
related to the word for life ). Similarly, the authors of
apocalyptic texts--including the Book of Revelation--were writing
allegories of events that were happening in their own time. Not for
a moment could they imagine that centuries afterwards, readers
would be poring over their works for clues to the date of the
Second Coming of Christ, or when and how the world would end.
For anyone who takes reading the Bible seriously and who wants to
get it right, this book will be both heartening and enlightening.
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