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We’re honored to learn from Dr. Terri Daniel about her academic work on toxic theology as a contributing factor in complicated mourning and work as an interfaith chaplain.
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The Bible can provide us with encouragement and wisdom, but also pain and sadness.
There are exhortations to love our neighbors and examples on ways to care for the hurting, but also Biblical passages of violence and oppression.
Our understanding of these Biblical texts will vary depending on how we’ve heard them interpreted by the faith traditions we’ve been exposed to.
Sadly, the Bible has been used to defend slavery, oppress women, marginalize our LGBTQ+ community, and even justify violence. It’s no wonder why so many of us might want to avoid reading our Bible altogether.
In “Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” Rabbi Rachel S. Mikva reveals how different faith traditions have discussed and debated their sacred texts — and how their interpretations on these texts continue to evolve. She also addresses some of the dangerous ideas that our sacred texts have expressed.
She shares why it’s important for us to be self-critical readers of our sacred literature, which means asking the hard questions and dialoguing with others about ways to understand these texts, especially conversations with those outside our own religious traditions.
In this podcast, Rabbi Rachel Mikva discusses ways to approach these dangerous sacred texts. You can subscribe or download this episode on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also watch or subscribe to the video series on YouTube.
We’re honored to learn from Dr. Amy-Jill Levine and Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler in this week’s podcast about their latest book “The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently.”
They share how Biblical texts can be interpreted in different ways depending on the historical, literary or theological perspective used. And how those interpretations have varied throughout the ages — even within the same religious tradition.
The podcast discussion includes a discussion on the historical model of Biblical interpretation, the doctrine of original sin, the challenges of applying Biblical ethics like Sabbath day observances, and the ways that ancient Israel and Biblical writers expressed monotheism and polytheism in our Hebrew Bible and New Testament.
You can subscribe or download this episode on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also watch or subscribe to the video series on YouTube.
This podcast includes discussions on:
• Jewish & Christian Views on Doctrine of Original Sin
• Creation of Humans: “Let us Make Man in Our Image”
• Monotheism & Polytheism in Ancient Israel
• Jewish Understandings of the New Testament
• Sabbath Day Observances
• Polytheism & Supernatural Beings in the New Testament
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine and Dr. Marc Brettler talk with us about the importance of empathy and growing in awareness for the different biases and filters we all use when reading the Bible (even when we try to be objective). They also share with us about the importance of learning how different religious traditions interpret their Bibles — and why we all need to become more familiar with each other’s perspectives. Dr. Levine also talks with us about how the Bible isn’t just a dialogue to engage in — but a trialogue.
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