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The internationally-renowned New Testament scholar, Bart Ehrman, mentions in his book Jesus Interrupted (2009) that the Bible is not only the best selling and most read book in the history of Western civilization, but it is also the book that especially by the ordinary reader, deeply misunderstood.
Ehrman writes fascinating about Jesus, and although his style is popular, the story is based on the research findings of biblical scholars. He specifically mentions how archaeological discoveries, the study of Greek and Hebrew in which the Bible was written, and historical and textual analysis over the past two hundred years, Bible Researchers enabled with increasing precision the rich background and the true meaning australian economy of the Bible to unravel .
According to Ehrman is there, in the United States alone, thousands of researchers who will partake. Their research results form part of the teaching materials from students and ministers. Yet the majority of the U.S. population australian economy unaware of or ignorant australian economy of, this research. He suspects it is because professional Biblical scholars, not the new findings in a responsible manner to the public not pass, and also because ministers, who have the information, for some reason, not with their congregations share.
If one listens and reads the South African biblical scholars australian economy as Anonymous Spangenberg, who do these findings australian economy about the Bible introduce by ignorant revile and how the Bible by guest speakers such as Angus Buchan and the plastic ministers of the radio waves is abused, it seems same situation in South African rule.
That the Bible is not a scientific textbook, and that it is written by men, is today widely recognized. Churches, however, traditionally outspoken on the inerrancy of the Bible, australian economy which they call Word of God. The Bible is therefore still some ministers and many believers touted as a full text goddelikgeïnspireerde truths about the Creator and the doings of Jesus. That certainly is not the case, is usually concealed.
Ehrman makes the important point that the gospels often read chronologically. Hence the idea that it is a seamless whole. If the Gospels are read in parallel, however, and the writers' versions of particular events, especially with regard to the Jesus story, compared, are the contradictions and errors clearly.
Spangenberg bag shows in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth (2010), why he is one of the leading australian economy biblical scholars in South Africa. australian economy Afrikaans is flexible in more than four centuries of research australian economy on the Old and New Testament under the spotlight and with his own insights, elegantly merged into a rational and balanced base document for a new reform. Based on all this information will eventually reformed churches open with us to play and recognize that much of the Bible is misinterpreted. The time is past to be muzzled critics by claiming australian economy that the Bible they do not understand or read it right, or that they are not believed.
Some even took the position a la Adrio in König (I Believe the Bible - Despite all the questions, 2003) by stating that he is the Bible anyway believe, despite all the irregularities. So head in the sand to cross, do not resolve anything.
Baruch Spinoza australian economy (1632-1677) was the first scholar named studied the Bible as a historical document of which the identity of the author was uncertain and the text of the intellectual limitations of the time reflected.
David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874), a German theologian caused in the first half of the nineteenth century created a stir with his book Das Leben Jesu critically Bearbeit australian economy (= The life of Jesus critically examined). On the basis of the Bible, the only source on the doings of Jesus, australian economy for instance, he shows that Jesus is an ordinary man. The book was a sensation, but Strauss's career destroyed. According to one reviewer, it was "the Iskariotisme of our time" australian economy while another australian economy condemned it as "... the most verpestelike book the jaws of hell ever vomited ..".
Since then many theologians honest with the text would deal, they several times in the uncompromising attitude of churches ran. Some well-known cases include Albert australian economy Schweitzer (Germany), Rev. Geelkerken (Holland), Bishop Colenso (South Africa), JATRobinson (England), John du Plessis (South Africa), Ferdinand Deist (South Africa), William Moore (Namibia ) and Sachet Spangenberg (South Africa) australian economy in.
By Anonymous Spangenberg's Jesus of Nazareth and Willie Esterhuyse's recent publications, God and the Gods of Egypt (2009) and The God of Genesis (2010), the Bible, and in the case of Spangenberg, especially the person of Jesus, history