Saturday, October 18, 2008

If You Give a Man a Fish...


Null Set- How would I find a book on Luke's audience for Jesus?
skybalon the librarian- Do you mean the community that would've first read the Gospel of Luke or more the sociological and cultural context of Jesus' life suggested in Luke?
Null Set- ...
skybalon the librarian- Or... do you mean the literary audience in Luke, the people the author has receive Jesus' message in the text itself?
Null Set- blink... Okay...
skybalon the librarian- Which...?
Null Set- The audience...
skybalon the librarian- Right then...

It's not a strange thing that many of us in the western Christian world feel perfectly at ease carrying Bibles around in these happy nylon cases and telling ourselves that it tells us what to do, who to be, and all else. And that is a strange thing.

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