The Bible Says So

What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture's Most Controversial Issues

Hardcover, 320 pages

English language

Published by Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-250-34746-6
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Bible scholar and popular TikToker Dan McClellan confronts misconceptions about the Bible.

The Bible is the world’s most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day across social media and in homes, businesses, and public spaces, people try to cut debate short by claiming that "the Bible says so!" However, they commonly disagree about what it actually does and doesn't say, particularly when it comes to socially significant issues. For instance, does the Bible say we should be on the lookout for an antichrist associated with the number 666? Does it say women shouldn’t wear revealing clothing? Does it say it’s okay to hit your kids?

In The Bible Say So, Dan McClellan leverages his popular "data over dogma" approach, and his years of experience in the academy and on social media, to lay out in clear and accessible ways what the data indicate the Bible …

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How revelant are the moral teachings of the Bible today?

Dr. Dan McClellan is a scholar of religion with an education in Biblical Hebrew and Greek, among other things. In this book, he challenges some assumptions roaming our collective discourse about what the Bible supposedly says. We learn about what Biblical authors thought about hot-button issues of their day and today, such as monotheism, hell, abortion, slavery, homosexuality, any many more. In general, there is two kinds of myths McClellan takes on in this book.

The first, modern Christian readers of the Bible would like the Bible to have clear opinions on the culture war hot points of our day, such as abortion and eternal damnation to hell. McClellan investigates these claims according to what we have been able to reconstruct about the beliefs and rhetorical goals of the individual Biblical authors. For example, he finds that abortion is not unambiguously condemned in the Biblical text and talks about how …

Subjects

  • Biblical Studies