Context Matters

Creating the Bible

Episode Summary

We think of the Bible as one singular book that was given to the church, but we forget that  people chose the scrolls and the letters that would belong to the biblical canon, and then they organized them to tell a complete narrative.

Episode Notes

How did we end up with the Bible that we read? Dr. Derek Cooper introduces us to the complexity of this sacred text. We think of the Bible as one singular book that was given to the church, but we forget that  people chose the scrolls and the letters that would belong to the biblical canon, and then they organized them to tell a complete narrative. We are not always aware of these issues, which attributes to some of our assumptions about the text.

Learn more about Dr. Cooper’s work with the Thomas Institute HERE