How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

How the Bible Actually Works

In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

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Peter Enns
Peter Enns
2019 • 304 pages

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How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
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Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
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Religion

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Faith

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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
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Learning

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Theology

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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?
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About The Bible

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How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
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Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally
How to Read the Bible as Literature
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

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