Mary Gran, professor of philosophy and director of the School of Lyon in her weekly column in the lacrawi newspaper, reviewed Thomas Romer’s book, “La Bible, what is it changing?”, In which he In particular, underlines the multiplicity of the multiplicity of sounds and messages in the Bible.
The writer leaves from the novelist of the novelist Ambo Eco that the Bible is one of the great books that does not read, noting that Thomas Romer does not ask this question directly, but his book answers this.
What is strange is that the Bible science teacher at the College de France explains the lack of reading of the Bible that they do not exist.
And each book – according to the writer – is a forum in which the publishers are punished and the successive writings overlap, and sometimes they contradict, and therefore it is impossible to extract a written message from them, because it is impossible to Make the texts say everything and anything.
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The writer also explained the lack of reading of the Bible, by the fact that the bad readers made him difficult, because of his exploitation to justify slavery and colonialism, male control, homosexuality, etc. ., and due to systematic errors such as the isolation of a verse or separate with the ignorance of the context and several sounds.
As for “intelligent reading”, this diversity is respectful without trying to organize it and establish an arbitrary hierarchical sequence in him, “it is therefore sometimes necessary to defend the Bible against his performers” – as Thomas Romer notes – even If the texts can defend themselves and find their real readers itself.
Joshua’s fascinating journey to problems found his readers – according to the writer – because the unlikely invasion of the country of Canaan in the hands of the Hebrews and the subsequent annihilation of the Aboriginal people, serves legitimacy to the crusades and the presence of The presence of “great Israel” without Palestinians, and we now know that this conquest has never occurred, because the young people of Judah, who had no real military power, cannot lead such a campaign.
There is a reading that gives the text a greater justice – according to the writer – indicating the song of black slaves “Joshua in the battle of Jericho”, where they saw the fall of the walls the reflection of their hope, it is That is to say, the liberation of a persecuted minority and not a celebration of a strong army confident of its rights, but the counter-strategy needed this battle of imagination, so that the Assyrians who controlled the Assyrians were able to resist the Assyrians who controlled the rising in terms of time.
The writer stressed that we often want to read the Bible in an authentic way, but we cannot, because we read what we read, and the example is that we believe that we see Paul falling from his horse on The road to Damascus, although there is no mention of a horse in the text, because there is no mention of an apple and no original sin in the alleged history of the “fall”.
Consequently, the writer believes that the negative aspect of these texts is that we read them through them, because the theological images and structures precede our reading and our confusion, especially since “the Bible was and is always A large field of projections “.
Thomas Romer concluded that the one who is satisfied with the belief he read the book, and the one who reads him to find the answer to his questions while he whispered with answers, he will not find anything and therefore he must Be authentic in front of the texts in order to allow them to change us.