What Is the Bible? · How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything by Bell, Rob -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Epigraph Contents Introduction: Twenty-Five Years In Part 1: There’s Something More Going On Here

1 Moses and His Moisture 2 Somebody Wrote Something Down 3 Stoners and Swingers 4 Who Paid Jesus’s Bills? 5 Anakephalaiossathai 6 The Importance of Altitude 7 Smoking Firepots 8 And the Fat Closed In Over the Sword 9 The Thing About Pearls and Pigs 10 Turning the Gem 11 Larry in the Airport

Part 2: The Nature of That Something

12 Flood 13 Fish 14 Son 15 He Had No Idea What I Was Talking About 16 All That Violence 17 Do What to Our Whats? 18 Give It Up for Sidon! 19 He Can’t Even Say His Name 20 The Whole Melchizedek Thing and Why You Love It and Know It’s True 21 So How Did Jesus Read the Bible? 22 The Sheeeeeeeet Factor 23 All Things Are Yours 24 The Human and the Divine

Part 3: Where That Something Takes Us

25 Babel 26 Two or Three Kinds of Apocalypses 27 The Book of Revelation, of Course 28 Why Americans Often Miss the Major Themes of the Bible

Part 4: The Questions That Always Come Up

29 Why Are There All Those Genealogies? 30 Why Is Leviticus in the Bible? 31 What About All Those People Falling Over Dead? 32 Did Jesus Have to Die? 33 What About Predestination? 34 What About All That Wrath? 35 What About Sin? 36 Is It the Word of God? 37 Is It Authoritative? 38 What About the Contradictions? 39 Is It Inerrant? 40 Is It Inspired? 41 What’s the Best Question to Ask When You’re Reading the Bible? 42 What’s the Worst Question to Ask When You’re Reading the Bible? 43 What’s the Other Best Question to Ask When You’re Reading the Bible?

Part 5: Endnotes

A Note About the Subtitle A Disclaimer About This Book A Thousand Thanks Books About the Bible That Will Blow Your Mind A Note on Growing and Changing

About the Author Also by Rob Bell Credits Copyright About the Publisher