Browsing the blog archives for March, 2008

Are we still reading the Bible like any other book?

One of the big themes in the history of research on the New Testament is the idea that the Bible should be read like any other historical book. This idea is sort of what kicked off modern research on the Bible in the first place. With the dawn of the Enlightenment, scholars started thinking, why [...]

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Oh, how times have changed . . .

I was just reading a book review from 1973 for a republication of an important work scholarship on the life of Jesus. The following quote gave me a chuckle.
. . . its usefulness is somewhat limited by its exorbitant price ($5.95 for a 166 page paperback!)
Exorbitant! Wow.

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