@TheJeditor

An absolute Johannes Factotum. I’m @thejeditor everywhere it matters and some places it doesn’t.

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Joined March 2011
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Seen some chatter about Driscoll making the rounds. Here’s your periodic reminder that he paid a team of researchers and sermon writers to do the vast majority of his work, then packaged it all as if he did it all himself. I know because I was one of them.
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Most conversations about the “story of the Bible” can’t break free from the gravity of framing that story in expressly theological terms or along a theological outline. The key to escape velocity is approaching the literary story that the Bible itself tells.
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Get you one.
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Of Deity and Dust: A Guided Journey through the Bible’s Complete Narrative

Of Deity and Dust: A Guided Journey through the Bible’s Complete Narrative

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I wrote a thing. Product of over a decade of research, synthesizing, and teaching on the literary narrative of Yahweh. Coming May 9. Pre-order the Kindle version now, or wait for paperback to drop on Friday.
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Pre-order the eBook here: amazon.com/dp/B0F791M9FS Come back Friday, May 9 for the paperback.

Of Deity and Dust: A Guided Journey through the Bible’s Complete Narrative

Of Deity and Dust: A Guided Journey through the Bible’s Complete Narrative

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“We were born before death. The seizer–of–souls is younger than we are. God gifted us immortality. But our first father and mother chose death.” Read more 👇
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Yes, I saw the sign. It was written in a font I don’t respect.
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“Christianity—properly understood—isn’t a therapy or a theological matrix to answer life’s most pressing questions. Christianity is a way of dying.” If you’ve ever wondered what my theology looks like, it’s that. Read the rest below.
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New video! Five things I’ve seen over the years that stop people from reading the Bible the way it was mean to be read—and what to do about it. youtube.com/watch?v=OKwW1xpl…

You’re probably reading the Bible wrong. Here’s what to do instead.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to read the Bible. Over the yea...

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Seldom do I write something that feels like I got at “the thing,” as Lewis put it. However, this piece on Christianity and Yahweh’s oldest foe is it for me. (Link in reply.)
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Apparently Twitter kills tweets with links, so I’m just gonna say that I started a YouTube channel. If you’ve liked my tweets about the Bible—especially the bits that challenge our overfamiliar readings—you may enjoy the content.
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Check it out here: YouTube.com/@thejeditor

Jed Ostoich

Unapologetically asking questions about the best literature.

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Inductive Bible study—for all its goals of contextual and grammatical analysis—reduces interpretation to an atomistic level. As such it struggles to ever actually grasp the significance of the very words it aims to interpret.
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There’s lots of talk about discourse analysis at the moment, but the irony is that it’s the intuitive way we read most everything naturally.
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Details-reading is helpful for filling in the cracks, as it were, but without a thoroughgoing grasp of the overarching narrative, it’s more likely to mislead than ever help.
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What happens when an author puts a word in God’s mouth that makes us really, really uncomfortable? youtube.com/watch?v=BdK5Zjrz…
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