Watch it I like to play with people's assumptions and (mis)perceptions!
Well, I study the Bible... er, actually the 2,000-3,000 year old biblical texts, who wrote them, why, to whom, and under what historical circumstances. It is a subjective (reader oriented) interpretive grid imposed upon these texts by a later generation of readers who had their own agendas and beliefs.
I'm interested how (religious) ideas get formed and how interpretive or authoritative traditions get created which eventually become "truth" bears for a particular culture. The Bible is something different.
Is there a place for a biblical scholar in atheist-theist debates? What does a biblical scholar whose interests are purely object (i.e., focused on the texts themselves--again not the Bible) have to offer to such a debate? Curious to hear your initial remarks before I really divulge what the objective study of the Bible is all about and what conclusions it leads us irrefutably to (remember I like to tease out you assumptions and faulty premises).
Currently I study the Contradictions in the Bible, 1 biblical contradiction a Day, explained with modern historical and source-critical methods. Find out more [Link removed]
Well, I study the Bible... er, actually the 2,000-3,000 year old biblical texts, who wrote them, why, to whom, and under what historical circumstances. It is a subjective (reader oriented) interpretive grid imposed upon these texts by a later generation of readers who had their own agendas and beliefs.
I'm interested how (religious) ideas get formed and how interpretive or authoritative traditions get created which eventually become "truth" bears for a particular culture. The Bible is something different.
Is there a place for a biblical scholar in atheist-theist debates? What does a biblical scholar whose interests are purely object (i.e., focused on the texts themselves--again not the Bible) have to offer to such a debate? Curious to hear your initial remarks before I really divulge what the objective study of the Bible is all about and what conclusions it leads us irrefutably to (remember I like to tease out you assumptions and faulty premises).
Currently I study the Contradictions in the Bible, 1 biblical contradiction a Day, explained with modern historical and source-critical methods. Find out more [Link removed]
1 Bible contradiction a Day !! identified & explained. http://contradictionsinthebible.com
