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Aug

31

Event

The Business of Bible - Benevolence: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves, by Prof. Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)

Location:
Scheler Family Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)
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Abstract: The Bible is the Good Book. Everyone knows it—or at least that it commands such a reputation. Yet the Bible is not, as no book can be, a moral agent on its own. Bible interpreters work to make it so, through ongoing creative negotiations, rhetorical…