TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards,E.Randolph
AU  - O'Brien,Brandon J.
TI  - Misreading Scripture with Western eyes: removing cultural blinders to better understand the Bible 
SN  - 9780830863471
AV  - BS511.3 .R523 2012
U1  - 220.6/7 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - IVP Books
KW  - Bible
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Social scientific criticism
KW  - Critique, interprétation, etc
KW  - Critique sociale
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Reference
KW  - Quotations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social scientific criticism of sacred works
KW  - Nonfiction
KW  - overdrive
KW  - History
KW  - Religion & Spirituality
KW  - Sociology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index; Serving two masters : mores --; The Bible in color : race and ethnicity --; Just words? : language --; Captain of my soul : individualism and collectivism --; Have you no shame? : honor/shame and right/wrong --; Sand through the hourglass : time --; First things first : rules and relationships --; Getting right wrong : virtue and vice --; It's all about me : finding the center of God's will
N2  - What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. Biblical scholars Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. They identify nine key areas where modern Westerners have significantly different assumptions about what might be going on in a text. Drawing on their own crosscultural experience in global mission, O'Brien and Richards show how better self-awareness and understanding of cultural differences in language, time and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways
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