Preachers, its your responsibility to help congregants understand - TopicsExpress



          

Preachers, its your responsibility to help congregants understand the Bible in context. To sit with questions of what the texts meant to the original hearers. Biblical texts and their interpretation have history. It might be helpful to walk folks through how texts were understood in their original Jewish context. ...[the film] Noah is best understood as midrash on the Genesis story in the Hebrew Bible. Midrash is a valuable part of the Jewish tradition and is a kind of storytelling that explores the ethics and values in the biblical text.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:52:28 +0000

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