Daily Gleanings: Thoughts from Larry Hurtado (31 May 2019)
Daily Gleanings from Larry Hurtado about early Christian investment in manuscripts and “extant” evidence.
Randolph-Richards
Free Richards, O’Brien with discount on Bailey @Logos
For April, Logos Bible Software’s “free book of the month” and discounted companion focus on Scripture in its cultural contexts.
The free text is Randolph Richards
and Brandon O’Brien’s Misreading
Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better
Understand the Bible (IVP, 2012). According to the book’s blub:
Brandon O’Brien and E. Randolph Richards shed light on the ways Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. They identify nine key areas where modern Westerners have significantly different assumptions about what is going on in a text than what the context actually suggests. Drawing on their own cross-cultural experience in global missions, the authors show how greater understanding of cultural differences in language, time, and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways.
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