{"id":6549,"date":"2016-11-02T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:45:50","slug":"stop-reading-bits-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6549","title":{"rendered":"STOP READING BITS OF THE BIBLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"answer\"><strong>From Richard Hays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><strong>&#8220;The Bible is just not a collection of little verses or tidbits of wisdom. When we&#8217;re reading the Gospel of Luke, for example, we&#8217;re reading a text that has a narrative shape to it. To see what&#8217;s going on in the text, you have to read the thing whole and see how the parts relate to the whole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\"><strong>And the same thing applies not only to individual gospels but also, analogously, to the Bible as a whole. It has a deep and subtle narrative unity\u2014not because unity has been superimposed by ecclesial fiat or by some clever editorial design, but because the diverse biblical witnesses bear common witness to God&#8217;s grace-filled action in the story of Israel. The emergence of the biblical writings themselves, in their complexity and diversity, is itself part of God&#8217;s mysterious &#8220;authorial&#8221; action. That&#8217;s why I believe that the Old Testament and the New have an underlying narrative unity that can be discerned only in retrospect, when we read the whole thing together.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\">The rest is here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksandculture.com\/articles\/2016\/novdec\/deep-and-subtle-unity-of-bible.html?paging=off\">http:\/\/www.booksandculture.com\/articles\/2016\/novdec\/deep-and-subtle-unity-of-bible.html?paging=off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Richard Hays: &#8220;The Bible is just not a collection of little verses or tidbits of wisdom. When we&#8217;re reading the Gospel of Luke, for example, we&#8217;re reading a text that has a narrative shape to it. To see what&#8217;s going on in the text, you have to read the thing whole and see how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}