Sam’s Club, responding to “numerous concerns” by parents and members has decided to pull the Lego Illustrated Bible from its store shelves. The complaints centered
“There was even a Catholic cardinal – “a Popish person at home” – Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, former archbishop of Westminster, whose presence the translators would definitely not have approved.”
The Word of God can be shrouded in mystery sometimes — even for those who have decided to follow the ministry as a career. However, you don’t have to remain in darkness. The scriptures offer the light to those who seek it.
“I want to show people the distilled wisdom of humanity reflecting on its own humanity, and to show that that is every bit as beautiful and powerful as the religious texts are, and in many ways much better.”
She started the project in response to the pressure on Christian women to live up to an ideal of biblical womanhood. This intrigued her because the bible includes both the “Proverbs 31 woman who rises before dawn each day to make breakfast, and Jael who drove a tent peg through her enemies’ [temple].”
According to the release, five Dead Sea Scrolls have been digitized so far, including the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll. Search queries using Google send users directly to the online versions.
The 4-year, $3.5 million project was run by the Common English Bible Committee, whose goal was to create what it calls a “denomination-neutral” Bible.
There have been numerous calls for the development of an Anglican Hermeneutic (biblical interpretive method), and not just between Anglican provinces in the West or in the Global South but by emergent church groups, evangelicals and theological progressives too. The Anglican Consultative Council is taking the first steps in beginning the conversation.
A group of scholars at Hebrew University have been working for more than half a century to find the original verion (and all subsequent editorial changes) of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Trinity Wall Street has been offering a study of the King James Version of the Bible. They have made two of the presentations from the