Understanding the Bible

Whether they actually happened or not is debatable. But to chalk biblical miracles up to freak occurrences of nature is fundamentally to misunderstand the nature both of the Bible and of belief in it.

Is there a country in the world where people quote the Bible as much as we do here in America? But what are we quoting?

The Bible is not a book. It is dozens of very different books bound together. The assumption that identifying one part as fiction undermines the factual character of another part is ludicrous.

The oral tradition that crystallized into the Talmud, the Midrashim and the Kabbalah is the only tool available to successfully decode the massive amount of legal, ethical and spiritual information embedded in the text.

The Bible is a peculiar book, and it's hard to get straight information about it. Knowing the few bits of information provided here makes it possible to make sense of the Bible for yourself.