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The Use and Abuse of the Bible: A Brief History of Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written in an engaging and entertaining manner, this new book from leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough charts the use and abuse of Scripture throughout the ages. It ranges from the evangelists’ engagement with the Hebrew Scriptures to the use of the Bible in present day politics—perhaps most pertinently in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Wansbrough takes, as his starting point,...

You were singing, he was being judged You were beating time, he was bring nailed You were dancing, he was being buried You were stretched on a soft couch, he in a coffin and the grave.26 In a passage which—despite its literary beauty—makes painful reading from many points of view, Melito also contrasts the beneficence of God in Israel’s history, especially at the Exodus and in the ministry of Jesus, with Israel’s deliberate blindness and rejection of Jesus: He it was who chose you and guided you
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