How to Read the Bible - McKenzie, Steven L.
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Millions of people read the Bible. Many try to live their lives according to its words. But, do they understand what they're reading? As Steven McKenzie shows in this provocative book, quite often the answer is, No. McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible readers 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. He examines several genres that are typically misunderstood, offering careful readings of specific texts to show how the confusion arises, and how…mehr

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Millions of people read the Bible. Many try to live their lives according to its words. But, do they understand what they're reading? As Steven McKenzie shows in this provocative book, quite often the answer is, No. McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible readers 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. He 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. For anyone who takes reading the Bible seriously and who wants to get it right, this book will be both heartening and enlightening.
McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible one must recognize the genres to which these texts belong. 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 swallowed by a fish, he says.
Autorenporträt
Steven McKenzie is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee. A renowned scholar of the Bible, his previous books include King David: A Biography and To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application.