Posts Tagged ‘Culture’

• Hebrews: the most popluar book

  Feb 20, 16 • Bible Books, Culture, Hebrews • Comments Off on Hebrews: the most popluar book
  

  I’ve not addressed Hebrews before in the 5minuteBible podcasts, and it’s a book I learned to love through studying it while learning Greek… yet one that’s strangely (or not so strangely) unpopular today&#...

• Ruth is from Moab, but Boaz is from Bethlehem

  Feb 26, 13 • Culture, Narrative, Reading, Ruth • 2 Comments
  

  Here’s the video version of this podcast (the audio only version is here). It offers another approach to Ruth, this time borrowing from the Swiss scholar Crapon di Caprona and suggesting a reading of Ruth 2 that takes account of the cultural discrepancy implied in the text… what DO you think...

• A Text without Contexts is Dumb!

  Apr 27, 07 • Context, Culture, Genesis, Psalms • 3 Comments
  

  This latest one is aimed at real beginners in biblical study and addresses why multiple contexts are important for reading/hearing texts, particularly the Bible.  ...