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A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible

By Kristin Swenson
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By Kristin Swenson
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Scholars know the Bible to be messy and contradictory, written by many authors and possessing of multiple viewpoints. Kristin Swenson capably leads us through the complicated but amazing Bible we think we know.

The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. It is read with intense devotion by hundreds of millions of people, stands as authoritative for Judaism and Christianity, and informs and affects the politics and lives of the religious and non-religious around the world. But how well do we really know it? The Bible is so familiar, so ubiquitous that we have begun to take our knowledge of it for granted. The Bible many of us think we know is a pale imitation of the...

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