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Title: The Bible for Grown-Ups

Author: Simon Loveday

Narrator: Jonathan Coote

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Bibles

Publisher's Summary:

The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires nor rejects belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible - a book that is too large to swallow whole yet too important in our history and culture to spit out.

Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus so different from Luke's? Why was St Paul so rude about St Peter? Every Biblical author wrote for their own time and their own audience. In short, nothing in the Bible is quite what it seems.

Literary critic Simon Loveday's book - a labour of love that has taken over a decade to write - is a thrilling listen, for Christians and anyone else, which will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Good Book.

Members Reviews:

The book sets out to apply modern historical scholarship to ...

The book sets out to apply modern historical scholarship to the events of the Bible and to point out the contradictions, historic errors and improbabilities of the Gospels. The book deals with historic events as known today compared with the biblical accounts. There is little or no comment on the message of the Bible. Many well known biblical accounts are shown to be distorted, unlikely or incorrect, essentially because the modern conception of history is very different to that of the writers of the Bible. While not disturbing to faith, the application of modern historiography to the Bible presents a very altered account of events.

the book is an amazing feat of discovery and not of judgement

I have known Simon Loveday for many yearsâso well that I'd hesitate to classify him as anything but scrupulously fair and honest. If I was forced, I'd probably call him a humanist. It certainly seems that he has written this outstanding book from that perspective, claiming that it neither requires, nor demands belief. He declares that his book is about the Bible, not about faith.

My reading of his book certainly confirms this for me. In that sense, the book is an amazing feat of discovery and not of judgement. What he does do, is compare conflicting texts within and between the Old and New Testaments, with great care for linguistic, cultural and historical issues. He does take a critical look at the different statements in both Testaments on retribution and compassion, between damnation and salvation, as well as the differences between heaven on earth or the life eternal.

Simon Loveday makes a careful examination of the ambiguity between the notion of Christ as the Son of God or the Son of Man, as well as identifying some of the confusions created by the contextual use of Greek and Hebrew of the original versions. Naturally he considers the consequences resulting from whether you believe that the New Testament was written for Jews or for Gentiles, for those in Judea or those of the Diaspora.

While he does say that there is âvery little correspondence with historical realityâ, he does emphasize that the the Good Book is full of symbolism, synonyms and metaphors. Simon examines the parts in detail, but concludes that the whole is very significant, notwithstanding the inconsistencies that he points out.