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The Bible Doesn't Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings
Contributor(s): Hoffman, Joel M. (Author)
ISBN: 1250059488     ISBN-13: 9781250059482
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
OUR PRICE:   $35.99  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General
- Religion | Biblical Studies - History & Culture
- Religion | Christianity - History
Dewey: 220.6
LCCN: 2015039459
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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The Bible Doesn't Say That explores what the Bible meant before it was misinterpreted over the past 2,000 years.

Acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In forty short, straightforward chapters, he covers morality, life-style, theology, and biblical imagery, including:

*The Bible doesn't call homosexuality a sin, and it doesn't advocate for the one-man-one-woman model of the family that has been dubbed biblical.

*The Bible's famous beat their swords into plowshares is matched by the militaristic, beat your plowshares into swords.

*The often-cited New Testament quotation God so loved the world is a mistranslation, as are the titles Son of Man and Son of God.

*The Ten Commandments don't prohibit killing or coveting.

What does the Bible say about violence? About the Rapture? About keeping kosher? About marriage and divorce? Hoffman provides answers to all of these and more, succinctly explaining how so many pivotal biblical answers came to be misunderstood.

Contributor Bio(s): Hoffman, Joel M.: - JOEL M. HOFFMAN, PhD, is the author of In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language and And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning. He is the chief translator for the 10-volume series, My People's Prayer Book (winner of the National Jewish Book Award) and for My People's Passover Haggadah. He is an occasional contributor to The Jerusalem Post and The Huffington Post, and has held faculty appointments at Brandeis University and at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He lives in New York.