Lives of Unforgetting: What We Lose in Translation When We Read the Bible, and A Way of Reading the Bible as a Call to Adventure - Stant Litore

Descriere Lives of Unforgetting: What We Lose in Translation When We Read the Bible, and A Way of Reading the Bible as a Call to Adventure - Stant Litore

\n \nWhen you translate radical or subversive texts into the language of Empire, you eventually get Imperial texts. In this book, we will take a close look at what has been lost.\n \nThe ancient Greek word for truth means unconcealing or unforgetting. Yet today many ideas and stories that were once critical to how early Christians understood, practiced, and defended their faith often remain hidden in plain sight in our Bibles. These ideas are concealed from us by the distance between languages, between eras, and between cultures-yet they are so worth unconcealing and unforgetting. In this book, discover: \n \nThe forgotten women who co-founded Christianity \nWhether the first-century church thought there was a hell \nWhat happens when you realize that in Greek, faith is a verb \nWhy gender in the Bible is more complicated than we think \nWhich concepts our modern tradition takes for granted that would have been alien to the original readers (like homophobia)\n \nWe have also forgotten that to read the Bible is to receive an invitation to adventure-to encounter the impossible, to move mountains, to walk on water. Instead, we have been taught to read the Bible tamely, to make no choices, to risk no questioning of our tradition. What would happen if we took the adventure? If we readers walked out into the wilderness toward God, leaving home far behind? If we stepped out of the boat of our received tradition, out onto the crashing waves?\n \nLet's find out.\n

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WESTMARCH PUBLISHING

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9781732086937

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