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All Christians know that reading the Bible is important, but not many of us know how to do it. We pick and choose verses, post them on our social media, and use them to reinforce what we already believe. If scripture is to be a prophetic and transforming text for our age, we’ve got to learn to read in context—in the perspective of the literary form, the setting of ancient culture, the situation of the author’s world view, and the framework of God’s whole revelation. Explore the most hotly-contested biblical issues in our day by letting Margaret Nutting Ralph help you determine whether or not the Bible tells you so. -- Stephen J. Binz, founder, Bridge-B.com The concept and approach of this book are brilliant. In a clear, logical manner, Margaret Nutting Ralph makes a compelling case for reading scripture in context and cautioning the reader from discerning messages in scripture that were never intended. In doing so, she empowers the reader to discern rich meaning from scripture that she or he may have missed otherwise. -- Leif Kehrwald, general editor, The Catholic Faith and Family Bible, Harper Catholic Bibles Margaret Nutting Ralph is an excellent pedagogue who has the uncanny ability to help believers to appreciate both the importance and the limitations of scripture for Christian living today. -- Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University

All Christians know that reading the Bible is important, but not many of us know how to do it. We pick and choose verses, post them on our social media, and use them to reinforce what we already believe. If scripture is to be a prophetic and transforming text for our age, we've got to learn to read in context-in the perspective of the literary form, the setting of ancient culture, the situation of the author's world view, and the framework of God's whole revelation. Explore the most hotly-contested biblical issues in our day by letting Margaret Nutting Ralph help you determine whether or not the Bible tells you so. -- Stephen J. Binz, founder, Bridge-B.com The concept and approach of this book are brilliant. In a clear, logical manner, Margie makes a compelling case for reading Scripture in context, and cautioning the reader from discerning messages in Scripture that were never intended. And in doing so, she empowers the reader to discern rich meaning from Scripture that s/he may have missed otherwise. -- Leif Kehrwald, general editor, The Catholic Faith & Family Bible, Harper Catholic Bibles Margaret Nutting Ralph is an excellent pedagogue who has the uncanny ability to help believers to appreciate both the importance and the limitations of Scripture for Christian living today. -- Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University

All Christians know that reading the Bible is important, but not many of us know how to do it. We pick and choose verses, post them on our social media, and use them to reinforce what we already believe. If scripture is to be a prophetic and transforming text for our age, we've got to learn to read in context-in the perspective of the literary form, the setting of ancient culture, the situation of the author's world view, and the framework of God's whole revelation. Explore the most hotly-contested biblical issues in our day by letting Margaret Nutting Ralph help you determine whether or not the Bible tells you so. -- Stephen J. Binz, founder, Bridge-B.com The concept and approach of this book are brilliant. In a clear, logical manner, Margaret Nutting Ralph makes a compelling case for reading scripture in context and cautioning the reader from discerning messages in scripture that were never intended. In doing so, she empowers the reader to discern rich meaning from scripture that she or he may have missed otherwise. -- Leif Kehrwald, general editor, The Catholic Faith and Family Bible, Harper Catholic Bibles Margaret Nutting Ralph is an excellent pedagogue who has the uncanny ability to help believers to appreciate both the importance and the limitations of scripture for Christian living today. -- Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University

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Margaret Nutting Ralph, Ph.D. serves as the director of the MPS (Masters in Pastoral Studies) program for Catholics at Lexington Theological Seminary. Dr. Ralph is the author of eighteen books on Scripture, including Paulist Press’ bestsellers, And God Said What? and the series, Breaking Open the Lectionary: Lectionary Readings in their Biblical Context for RCIA, Faith Sharing Groups and Lectors.. Her work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian, and Korean.

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