Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy
by John Shelby Spong
Harper One, New York, New York, 2016 394 pages
I will seek to show just how deeply Jewish the Christian gospels are and just how much they reflect the Jewish scriptures, Jewish history and Jewish patterns of worship. To read the gospels properly, I now believe, requires a knowledge of Jewish culture, Jewish symbols, Jewish icons and the tradition of Jewish storytelling. It requires an understanding of what the Jews called 'midrash.' (
p. 3)
-- quote submitted by Jack Y.
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