{"id":9282,"date":"2021-12-28T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:55:18","slug":"enjoying-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9282","title":{"rendered":"ENJOYING THE BIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enjoying the Bible: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B08PZ9B9CV\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Mullins has written a terrific book. Mullins teaches English and the history of ideas at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The subtitle offers a better feel for what Mullins is seeking to do: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures. Mullins deftly shows how the ability to read and appreciate poetry makes one a better reader of Scripture. After all, the Bible is not all prose. There is much poetry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Enjoying the Bible<\/em> is an extremely well-written and motivating account of how to better read the Bible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Those who have little understanding of how genre functions may be stretched a bit but carefully\u00a0working through <em>Enjoying the Bible\u00a0<\/em>will be well worth the effort.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Mullins has written a terrific book. Mullins teaches English and the history of ideas at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.\u00a0 The subtitle offers a better feel for what Mullins is seeking to do: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures. Mullins deftly shows how the ability to read and appreciate poetry makes one a better reader [&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":[3,24,12,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading","category-book-review","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","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=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9285,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}