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Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages QUOTES

1 " Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but often less well, especially when what we are reading—such as the plays of Shakespeare and Holy Scripture—is a body of oral material that has been, almost but not quite accidentally, captured in a book like a fly in amber. "

― Jaroslav Pelikan , Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages

2 " the word prophet (a compound from the Greek word for “speaker”) does not mean in the first instance someone who predicts the future, but one who speaks out on behalf of God—not one who foretells, therefore, but one who tells-forth (which often also includes, of course, foretelling the future). The primary and defining characteristic of the biblical prophet, then, is to be sought in the divine vocation and mission of telling and speaking in the name and by the designated authority of Another. "

― Jaroslav Pelikan , Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages

3 " [I]t ill behooves an era of human history like this one to look back at the Middle Ages and think only of jihad or of the crusades and pogroms without remembering th[e] encounters when, at least for an occasional moment, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, by the power of the Book and in the heritage of Abraham, the father whom they shared, managed to transcend their separations without losing their identities. "

― Jaroslav Pelikan , Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages