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Authors and Authorship
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
Who wrote the Bible?
The simple fact is that we don’t know who wrote much of the Bible. Although the names of apparent authors are found in many biblical books and parts of books, ...
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Bible and Bibles
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What is the Bible?
The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. In its pages we encounter some of the most memorable characters in world literature: Adam and Eve, ...
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Biblical Concepts
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What do I mean by “biblical concepts”?
By biblical concepts I mean major ideas and themes that are often grouped under the rubric “biblical theology.” It is a mistake, I think, to ...
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Biblical Values
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What are the Bible’s highest values?
When the early first-century CE rabbi Hillel was asked by a prospective convert to explain the whole Torah while the prospective convert was ...
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The Contents of the Bible
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What are the books of the Bible?
The Bible is divided into books. For easy reference, scholars in the Middle Ages divided the books into chapters (except for the very short books), ...
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The Contexts of the Bible
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
Why is it important to study the contexts in which the biblical writers lived?
Because the Bible was not written in a vacuum, but in a world—or rather, many worlds—that are ...
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Interpretive Strategies
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What are interpretive strategies?
Interpretive strategies are methodologies of various types used in studying the Bible. Some of these, such as textual criticism and archaeology, ...
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Languages, Texts, and Translations
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What languages was the Bible written in?
The Bible was written in three languages. The first is Hebrew, which was the primary language of the ancient Israelites for most of the ...
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The Uses of the Bible
Michael Coogan
in The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
What is reception history?
Reception history is a scholarly term for what we could call the study of the afterlives of the Bible: how, since it was being formed, the Bible has been ...
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