Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

by Brandon J. O'Brien and E. Randolph Richards

Book Overview

Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. Identifying nine areas where commonplaces of modern Western thought diverge with the text, the authors ask us to reconsider long-held assumptions about our most beloved book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830837825
• ISBN13: 9780830837823
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: IVP
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Eye opening!

This is where culture and the Bible meet head on. Every culture has those things that go without saying, and the Bible is no exception! How one culture reads the Bible can be very different how another culture reads the Bible. The more we understand the Biblical culture or context and the more we learn about how different cultures than my own understand scripture, and entire world is open to new understanding of what scripture might be saying. It isn’t as black and white or simple as we would like it to be.