Understanding the profound differences between the world of the Bible and our world
We take for granted that the Bible is part of our Western culture… but we no longer really know how it originally worked. The differences between the Bible and our Western world, which finds its initial inspiration there, are not simply a matter of the difference between sandbanks and snowbanks. People of the past had neither cars, nor ATMs, nor space stations, let alone 65-story skyscrapers… This guide aims to facilitate your reading of the Bible. It highlights several recurring themes that appear frequently throughout its pages. From this very practical perspective, it is a real pleasure to share with you the fruits of more than thirty years of questioning, reading, reflection, lectures, and articles on Mediterranean biblical culture. We can now read it with the right lens, before transposing it to our very different Western and North American world…