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Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us as modern readers. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. In this highly readable book, the insights of biblical scholars Brandon O’Brien and E. Randolph Richards shed light on the ways Western readers often...

face. This may seem unbelievable to many of you. You may think, Is that even right? Surely, the person “deep down inside” feels at least a twinge of guilt. (In our experience, no, they do not.) Paul considered himself “faultless” even though he was persecuting Christians (Phil 3:6). It was only when he was confronted by another that he realized his sin (Acts 9:1–5); this was also the case with Peter (Gal 2:11–14).10 In a shame culture, it is not the guilty conscience but the community that punishes
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