Bob Jenkins
May 24th 2003, 07:05 AM
The Unauthorized Version, Truth and Fiction in the Bible
By Robin Lane Fox, Alfred A. Knoff, New York, 1992
Up front, I'll tell you Fox is an Aetheist, but not the kind you will mostly find here at TWeb.
From the Preface:
The Unauthorized Version is a historian's view of the Bible.. It is a book about evidence and historical truth.. It is unauthorized because it addressess questions which the Bible itself obscures: it's authors, historical growth and historical truth. ... Those for whom the Bible is a book of faith wish to discover the truth, too. ... They will find this historian's view conservative, even old-fashioned, but there are times whehn atheists are loyal friends of the truth. .... When I had almost finished [this book] a friend reminded me that .... I beleived in the Bible but not in God. .... Twenty-five years later, this book has turned out to be an explanation of what I meant.
You will find that this far from a scholarly rant. and covers Fox's truths that question some of the points held by atheists. I have believed that the are no eye-witness accounts to the life of Jesus; Fox believes the the fourth gospel is! Although, Fox can not supply a name for the apostle who he belives wrote it.
It is also the first time I have read, in depth, some of the "problems" with the Old Testament. With Fox's treament of the Old Testament, he is in the same vein and character of Karen Armstrong.
This book is of interest to those would look for the truth of and in the Bible on both sides of the theistic fence. It has great appeal to Christians that hold the Bible as a bulwark of personal faith
By Robin Lane Fox, Alfred A. Knoff, New York, 1992
Up front, I'll tell you Fox is an Aetheist, but not the kind you will mostly find here at TWeb.
From the Preface:
The Unauthorized Version is a historian's view of the Bible.. It is a book about evidence and historical truth.. It is unauthorized because it addressess questions which the Bible itself obscures: it's authors, historical growth and historical truth. ... Those for whom the Bible is a book of faith wish to discover the truth, too. ... They will find this historian's view conservative, even old-fashioned, but there are times whehn atheists are loyal friends of the truth. .... When I had almost finished [this book] a friend reminded me that .... I beleived in the Bible but not in God. .... Twenty-five years later, this book has turned out to be an explanation of what I meant.
You will find that this far from a scholarly rant. and covers Fox's truths that question some of the points held by atheists. I have believed that the are no eye-witness accounts to the life of Jesus; Fox believes the the fourth gospel is! Although, Fox can not supply a name for the apostle who he belives wrote it.
It is also the first time I have read, in depth, some of the "problems" with the Old Testament. With Fox's treament of the Old Testament, he is in the same vein and character of Karen Armstrong.
This book is of interest to those would look for the truth of and in the Bible on both sides of the theistic fence. It has great appeal to Christians that hold the Bible as a bulwark of personal faith