During the waning days of the apartheid era, his subordinates killed anti-apartheid fighters and burned their corpses; in 2006, at the age of sixty-eight, Vlok presented the Bible to a man they once tried to kill.
The present translation is an experiment in re-presenting the Bible — and, above all, biblical narrative prose — in a language that conveys with some precision the semantic nuances and the lively orchestration of literary effects of the Hebrew and at the same time has stylistic and rhythmic integrity as literary English.
Some Bibles are explicit about their interpretive and ideological tendencies, presenting the Christian Bible through a particular hermeneutical lens.
The Bible is about the true God of creation; the movie does not present the true God of the Bible.
In this provocative book, Norman Wirzba argues that the doctrine of creation-as presented in the Bible and as developed through the centuries-actually holds the key to a true understanding of our place in the environment and our responsibility toward it.
The Talmudic image of God is vastly different from the image of God presented in the Bible.
And Halpern wonders out loud whether David, presented in the Bible as the greatest king in the history of ancient Israel, was an Israelite at all.
One need not peruse the Catholic exegetes on these passages, for the late scholar Raymond Brown concedes the Orthodox positions like "virgin conception stems from its being presented in the Bible AND in church pronouncements".
In this interview, HuffPost's Senior Religion Editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush spoke to President Carter by phone about the hardest questions presented in the Bible: from gays, science, the role of women, slavery passages and more.
Do I, as a taxpayer, want my taxes to support that as a proper education in science?" One school participating in Louisiana's program notes that its students "will be expected to defend creationism through evidence presented by the Bible versus traditional scientific theory". Refusing to teach evolution also isn't grounds for rejecting a school from the voucher program.
