{"product_id":"lives-of-unforgetting-what-we-lose-in-translation-when-we-read-the-bible-and-a-way-of-reading-the-bible-as-a-call-to-adventure-paperback","title":"Lives of Unforgetting: What We Lose in Translation When We Read the Bible, and A Way of Reading the Bible as a Call to Adventure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStant Litore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"When you translate radical or subversive texts into the language of Empire, you eventually get Imperial texts. In this book, we will take a close look at what has been lost.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ancient Greek word for \"truth\" means \u003ci\u003eunconcealing\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eunforgetting.\u003c\/i\u003e Yet today many ideas and stories that were once critical to how early Christians understood, practiced, and defended their faith often remain \"hidden in plain sight\" in our Bibles. These ideas are concealed from us by the distance between languages, between eras, and between cultures-yet they are so worth unconcealing and unforgetting. In this book, discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe forgotten women who co-founded Christianity\u003cbr\u003eWhether the first-century church thought there was a hell\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when you realize that in Greek, faith is a verb\u003cbr\u003eWhy gender in the Bible is more complicated than we think\u003cbr\u003eWhich concepts our modern tradition takes for granted that would have been alien to the original readers (like homophobia)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have also forgotten that to read the Bible is to receive an invitation to adventure-to encounter the impossible, to move mountains, to walk on water. Instead, we have been taught to read the Bible tamely, to make no choices, to risk no questioning of our tradition. What would happen if we took the adventure? If we readers walked out into the wilderness toward God, leaving home far behind? If we stepped out of the boat of our received tradition, out onto the crashing waves?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet's find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 386\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51798006989088,"sku":"9781732086937","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f147b77a12a047ef0d93eb56509bc636.webp?v=1780787975","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lives-of-unforgetting-what-we-lose-in-translation-when-we-read-the-bible-and-a-way-of-reading-the-bible-as-a-call-to-adventure-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}