The Origins of the Bible, Part XX: I and II Zechariah, Primary Shapers of the Christian Story

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on February, 5 2009

If you were to search the Scriptures for a book called II Zechariah, you would not find it. There is only a single fourteen-chapter book called Zechariah, buried in …

The Origins of the Bible, Part XVI: Daniel

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on November, 27 2008

History is not well served by the way the Bible is organized. For example, the Torah (Genesis-Deuteronomy), which seems to tell a continuous story, was actually written over a …

The Origins of the Bible, Part XIII: II Isaiah — The Figure of the “Servant”

Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on October, 2 2008

If I were to ask an ordinary group of people, even church people, to tell me about the message of the prophet we call II Isaiah, I suspect I …

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