Voices
Peter Feldmeier is the Murray/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. He received his Ph.D. in Christian Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has published widely in Christian Spirituality, comparative theology, and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. Named the 2010 Aquinas Scholars Professor of the Year, Feldmeier has recently published "Encounters in Faith: Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Anselm Academic, 2011) and "The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada," with Leo Lefebure (Peeters/Eerdmans), which won the Frederick Streng Award for excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies.
The Word
The Bible is highly complex and includes a plurality of theologies not all of which align Some of these differences even reflect dramatic shifts Many Old Testament authors assumed for example that there were gods other than Yahweh Ps 82 1 95 3 This had to be corrected Isa 45 20 ndash 21 J
The Word
Have you ever wondered what the Bible meant by scribe Minimally scribes were educated people who read and wrote for a living Scribes could be hired by illiterate people the vast majority for legal and financial matters More typically scribes were also experts in Torah the Mosaic law and th