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Book
Karen Armstrong · 2007
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
The Bible was never a fixed sacred object but a living practice — endlessly rewritten, reread, and reimagined by communities in crisis.
faith-and-doubt
Human beings are meaning-seeking creatures. Unless we find some pattern or significance in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.
ARM-BIB-RC-002When people read the Bible receptively and intuitively, they found that it gave them intimations of transcendence — a sense of completeness and oneness.
ARM-BIB-RC-005education-and-formation
Torah study replaced the temple as the chief means of encountering the divine presence. Even God had to keep studying his own Torah.
ARM-BIB-RC-051Scripture had a body, a psyche and a spirit; these corresponded to the three different senses in which scripture could be understood.
ARM-BIB-RC-072obedience-and-authority
The Deuteronomists actually changed the wording of earlier law codes to make them endorse their proposals — stripping the king of sacral powers.
ARM-BIB-RC-014His study of Jewish law had convinced him that Rabin was a rodef who endangered Jewish lives — pernicious interpretations of scripture resulting in atrocity.
ARM-BIB-RC-134Illuminates
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