The Bible Doesnt Say That, Joel M. Hoffman
The Bible Doesnt Say That, Joel M. Hoffman
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The Bible Doesn't Say That
40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

Author: Joel M. Hoffman

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/16/2016

Synopsis

A vast readership wants better access to the ancient words and ideas of the Bible. In The Bible Doesn't Say That, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of instances of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In 40 short chapters, Hoffman covers fundamental theology, morality, lifestyle, and biblical imagery: *The famous New Testament quotation "God so loved the world" is a mistranslation, as are the titles "Son of Man" and "Son of God." *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." *Jesus had siblings, in spite of the Catholic rhetoric about the "ever-Virgin Mary." *The Ten Commandments don't prohibit killing or coveting. Even many of the Bible's details end up distorted: the fruit in the Garden of Eden wasn't an apple, it wasn't a whale that swallowed Jonah, and many animals marched onto Noah's ark in groups of seven, not pairs. The Bible Doesn't Say That succinctly explains each misunderstanding, detailing the nature of what went wrong and offering insight into the original meaning of the world's most popular book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on July 16, 2016

I ended up really liking this book - but there were some bumps along the way. Some of these ideas are much more obvious than others (did Adam and Eve eat an apple?) and some are more obscure (did Moses have horns? What the hell?) Many of these discussions will already be familiar to students of the......more

Goodreads review by C. on June 22, 2019

Joel M. Hoffman is a serious figure in the study of the Hebrew Bible and Christian counterpart and his aim to clarify mistakes from "ignorance, accident, culture gap, mistranslation, and misinterpretation." Hoffman's Judaic focus paired with his knowledge of late classical Greek culture and the Koin......more

Goodreads review by Jake on June 15, 2019

Should be called "40 Things the Bible Says, but it's more nuanced than that, and you probably shouldn't take that statement at face value". If you believe that the Bible you hold in your hand is the literal word of God, unchangeable, incorruptible, then you simply must read this book and take into a......more

Goodreads review by Italo on February 16, 2016

The author, a highly respected biblical scholar, describes in this book "40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and other Misunderstandings". Considering the age of the Bible texts, and the complications of translation, and the very foreign cultures that produced the Bible, there are many more......more

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