This is the final part of a three-part series. to start earlier, you can go to PART ONE or PART TWO. Those of the Abrahamic Faiths have often struggled in their visualization of God. I will not pretend to have expertise of other faiths (including my own). With the Abrahamic Faiths (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) …
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The following is the first part of an article I wrote for a class I took on teaching in orality cultures. The title is "Biblical Commentary as Story: Is There a Place for Aggadic Midrash in Oral Cultures?" Stories have many purposes in their religious communities. Much of Scripture is in the form of story. Bruce …
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"In our society, the way we think we really come to know something is to doubt it, to question and test it, to dissect it (requiring us first to kill it), to analyze it by breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces-- pieces that are smaller than we are, pieces we can control and feel …