What is the Bible? : how an ancient library of poems, letters, and stories can transform the way you think and feel about everything

What is the Bible? How an ancient library of poems, letters, and stories can transform the way you think and feel about everything

Rob Bell, 1970-

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Subjects
Bible > Appreciation.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > Miscellanea.
Bible > Influence.
Published
San Francisco : HarperOne 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Rob Bell, 1970- (author)
Edition
First Edition
Physical Description
ix, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-318).
ISBN
9780062194268
  • Introduction: Twenty-Five Years In
  • Part 1. There's Something More Going On Here
  • 1. Moses and His Moisture
  • 2. Somebody Wrote Something Down
  • 3. Stoners and Swingers
  • 4. Who Paid Jesus's Bills?
  • 5. Anakephalaiossathai
  • 6. The Importance of Altitude
  • 7. Smoking Firepots
  • 8. And the Fat Closed In Over the Sword
  • 9. The Thing About Pearls and Pigs
  • 10. Turning the Gem
  • 11. Larry in the Airport
  • Part 2. The Nature of That Something
  • 12. Flood
  • 13. Fish
  • 14. Son
  • 15. He Had No Idea What I Was Talking About
  • 16. All That Violence
  • 17. Do What to Our Whats?
  • 18. Give It Up for Sidon!
  • 19. He Can't Even Say His Name
  • 20. The Whole Melchizedek Thing and Why You Love It and Know It's True
  • 21. So How Did Jesus Read the Bible?
  • 22. The Sheeeeeeeet Factor
  • 23. All Things Are Yours
  • 24. The Human and the Divine
  • Part 3. Where That Something Takes Us
  • 25. Babel
  • 26. Two or Three Kinds of Apocalypses
  • 27. The Book of Revelation, of Course
  • 28. Why Americans Often Miss the Major Themes of the Bible
  • Part 4. The Questions That Always Come Up
  • 29. Why Are There All Those Genealogies?
  • 30. Why Is Leviticus in the Bible?
  • 31. What About All Those People Falling Over Dead?
  • 32. Did Jesus Have to Die?
  • 33. What About Predestination?
  • 34. What About All That Wrath?
  • 35. What About Sin?
  • 36. Is It the Word of God?
  • 37. Is It Authoritative?
  • 38. What About the Contradictions?
  • 39. Is It Inerrant?
  • 40. Is It Inspired?
  • 41. What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible?
  • 42. What's the Worst Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible?
  • 43. What's the Other Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible?
  • Part 5. Endnotes
  • A Note About the Subtitle
  • A Disclaimer About This Book
  • A Thousand Thanks
  • Books About the Bible That Will Blow Your Mind
  • A Note on Crowing and Changing
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Bell (Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived), a sometimes controversial but undeniably popular author, speaker, and pastor, has written an introduction to the Bible that is one part biblical theology and interpretational principles and one part spiritual travelogue. Intermixing exegetical wisdom with reflections on life, spirituality, and the universe's abundance of divine prompts and promises, Bell shares why and how readers might encounter the Bible in a whole new way by considering the relevance of its lessons to daily life as well as to larger life decisions. Bell is an expert in reading Scripture and known for cracking open the context, language, and background of both familiar and obscure Bible stories, but his work can still come off as shallow and glib. Despite not being an in-depth theological treatise, this popular presentation prompts readers to see the Bible as a thoroughly human production meant to elicit questions and connection rather than provide firm answers or theological foes. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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