One juror had read aloud from the Bible to a group of fellow jurors, including the passage, “And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”
In the spirit of the American Library Association’s
The Telegraph lists the top 10 worst Bible passages as announced at Ship of Fools:
“Students who want to do serious study of Western civilization need to know the Bible,” says Barbara Newman, Northwestern University professor of English, Religion and Classics. “They need to know the Bible, even if they do not believe the Bible.”
Reuters reports that the surviving parts of the world’s oldest Christian bible will be reunited online on Monday, generating excitement among both believers and biblical scholars.
Church leaders from more than 40 denominations are encouraging their congregations to take the “You’ve Got The Time” challenge, a 40-day campaign of listening to the New Testament for 28 minutes a day