Dark History of the Bible — How Interpretation Creates Sacred Authority
What changes when a text treated as timeless moral authority is read as a layered record of ancient societies?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Dark History of the Bible: The Sins, the Temptation, the Betrayal, and the Word by Michael Kerrigan as our lens, this episode investigates how a diverse collection of ancient writings became experienced as a unified sacred text.
Kerrigan examines the Bible’s violence, betrayal, conquest, incest, contradiction, and human authorship without reducing the work to a simple argument against religion…
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