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Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today’s contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries...

Only in the seventeenth century, with the rise of European rationalism, did scholars begin to question the unique, divine nature of the biblical text. Hobbes (in England) and Spinoza (in Holland) led the way. Consider the latter’s magnificent Theological-Political Tractate,5 with its chapter called simply “Of the Interpretation of Scripture.” It replaces the earlier assumptions with a single premise that allows the Bible to be seen in a new manner: “I hold that the method of interpreting Scripture
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