{"id":48,"date":"2020-11-19T04:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T04:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=48"},"modified":"2020-11-19T04:07:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T04:07:44","slug":"genres-and-approaches-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/11\/19\/genres-and-approaches-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Genres and Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Back Door Introduction to the Bible, <\/em>John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie state that &#8220;The problems that have come from taking Genesis 1 as history are well known.&#8221; They were not so well known to me. I grew up thinking that Genesis was accepted by all Christians as plain historical fact. I was surprised when this book so confidently said that this theory isn&#8217;t supported by careful reading of the text. It really changed my perspective on the text. I had always gone into reading the bible as though everything written was historical fact. The possibility that Genesis could be fictional- more like a fable- had never crossed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I think this serves as an example of how perspective can deeply change people&#8217;s interpretations of things. In\u00a0<em>Back Door Introduction to the Bible,\u00a0<\/em>the authors talk about how differences in interpretation lead to the &#8220;fight over teaching creationism as science in public schools, and museums featuring Adam riding on a brachiosaurus.&#8221; Imagine if people had come in reading Genesis as possibly more of a fable. These kinds of things wouldn&#8217;t have been argued for so hard. Genre really changes the context of words and how people translate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Back Door Introduction to the Bible, John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie state that &#8220;The problems that have come from taking Genesis 1 as history are well known.&#8221; They were not so well known to me. I grew up thinking that Genesis was accepted by all Christians as plain historical fact. I was surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196862,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}