My So-Called Biblical Life provides clean views to tales from the Bible, imbuing them with robust, sincere emotion. The editor's translation of biblical passages grounds twelve unique narratives, which have interaction the reader and invite a private reaction. think sending away your invaluable daughter to be a concubine. believe your family's survival relied on the sacrifice of your brother's existence. photograph Jesus taking a look you within the eye and telling you to promote every thing you personal. What may you do? The amassed essays during this quantity discover those situations and extra. Readers simply know about lifestyles in biblical instances via well-researched tales with aiding footnotes. Questions stick with each one essay, stimulating person mirrored image and staff dialogue, and making this booklet a special source for periods, publication teams, seminars, sermons, retreats, and Bible stories. My So-Called Biblical Life transforms one-dimensional portrayals of Bible characters into bright graphics of fellows, girls, and kids from antiquity whose struggles and hopes nonetheless converse to us this present day.

Three of the individuals to My So-Called Biblical lifestyles are incarcerated; a element of the royalties from this ebook are donated to the Exodus Transitional neighborhood (www.etcny.org), which is helping humans re-enter into society after spending time in prison.

Contributors:
Aundray Jermaine Archer
Lawrence Bartley
Evan Cameron
Sarah Condon
Joseph A. Ebert
Clara Garnier-Amouroux
Kenyatta Hughes
Emily Phillips Lloyd
William H. Mohr
Richard P. Poirier
Emily Sher

"For millennia the Bible has required interpretation and encouraged mind's eye. To the latter task belong the essays during this quantity. Written by way of humans of numerous backgrounds, educations, and insights, they give surprises and demanding situations as they testify to the iconic temptations and provocations of Scripture. fable and religion interact tales; readers make a decision the outcome."
--Phyllis Trible, Baldwin Professor Emerita of Sacred Literature, Union Theological Seminary, New York

"These imaginitive and considerate essays convey the ability of empathetic interpreting to carry the biblical textual content to existence, whatever the reader's credentials. a very good version for establishing up the text."
-- John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of previous testomony, Yale University

"Rarely does a e-book make the Bible come alive in such own and significant methods. With a number of the writers at the moment in legal, and half the royalties going to assist prisoners upon their release, My So-Called Biblical Life is a piece of intelligence, creativity, and justice."  
--Serene Jones, President, Union Theological Seminary, New York

Julie religion Parker is assistant professor of outdated testomony at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. She is an ordained minister within the United Methodist Church and holds a PhD in outdated Testament/Hebrew Bible from Yale collage. Her most modern e-book, Valuable and Vulnerable (2013), analyzes texts regarding young children within the Hebrew Bible.