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How to read the Bible

From Homiletic, Joseph N. Evans (Mt. Carmel): Double-Consciousness: The Du Boisian Hermeneutic. An alter-ed perspective on the Bible: Robert Alter has issues with translations of Holy Text. A review of The Bible and the Principles of Yin and Yang by Franklin Hum Yun. From Review of Biblical Literature, a review of Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex by Anthony Heacock; and a review of A Hitchhiker's Guide to Jesus: Reading the Gospels on the Ground by Bruce N. Fisk. A review of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins by Peter Enns. God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to Oxford scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou. How can we be certain that the Gospel accounts contained in the New Testament are both authentic and authoritative? What the Bible could have said: Why doesn't the Bible contain superior medical advice? How to read the Bible the wrong way: What is the role of biblical scholarship for the average Christian trying to find God through the Scriptures? The “Bible Challenge” is a marathon of a read: Effort to read Scripture in a year goes global.