Robert Alter: The Bible Through Literary Eyes

Biblical scholar Robert Alter argues that the distinctive organizing literary conventions and techniques of the Bible have been lost. He shows how a recovery of these conventions enables us to see more sharply what is going on in the Bible. Series: Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies [3/2007] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12252]

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[LabakiTurbo]

It's incredible how every video with the word "Bible" in its title has thousands of amazingly long and utterly boring comments.

(Just like this one)

[BIBLEisMARKofBEAST]

@k0smon You are right, for in Him we live and move and have our being. The way we are separated from Him is that we have two lives within us. The flesh and the spirit. When you meditate you concentrate on your breathing, that's the invisible spiritual part of you. The flesh part of you wants something to eat. Idolatry brings us into the flesh. When you read the bible you're in the flesh. We can only worship God in the Spirit.

THE BIBLE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST.

[k0smon]

@BIBLEisMARKofBEAST ::: How can we be separated from God when He is everywhere present?

[anastasiaplaydressup]

He totally fucked up putting the bible in its wonderful sleeve.

[BIBLEisMARKofBEAST]

@Pokerislife7 Why would anyone want to kill a bible worshiper? You don't have to worry, you'll die in your bed of old age. There are billions of bible worshipers, satan will not kill them that obey him. People will die for land, family, money, but you can't name one person that has died for the invisible God in over a century. I'm the only person you've ever heard of in your religious history that people want to kill. So don't worry about dying for Jesus, you don't have the Holy Ghost, but 666.

[Pokerislife7]

@BIBLEisMARKofBEAST I plan on being persecuted if I'm not raptured away with the church. I'll step up and be the first to ask to get his head chopped off. I'm afraid of God and of denying Christ to save my life so I am definitely not taking any mark of any beast.

I watched a video of a man talking about a vision he had of the world after the Rapture. He said, Christians among others, will be taken from their homes, detained in prisons, and all will all have to renounce the name of Jesus or die.

[Pokerislife7]

@BIBLEisMARKofBEAST Let them come. Let them roar. Let all their armies encircle me. I will fight and die fighting. And the world will know that I died free. Jesus died so it is not such a terrible thing to die. In some warrior cultures, the warriors are happy to die in what they call beautiful deaths. Fighting for my freedom and beliefs and the freedoms and beliefs of those who are like me, and dieing to protect that freedom, to me is a beautiful death. One which I am happy to have.

[BIBLEisMARKofBEAST]

@Pokerislife7 Sorcerers, witches and demons will try to beguile you. You will be surrounded by billions of demonic bible worshipers. Jesus has very few Christians in this world today because the bible has become the mark of the beast.

[BIBLEisMARKofBEAST]

@Pokerislife7 Besides all of that, they will try to kill you. They will send witches after you and you will suffer sleep paralysis and hear voices of demons attacking you. You will be hated of all men. You must come under the power of satan and his bible or you cannot live in this world without persecution.

[BIBLEisMARKofBEAST]

@Pokerislife7 Mark of the beast. If you don’t take the mark of the beast, you are in big trouble. Try this; tell all your friends and family that the bible is the mark of the beast. First they kick you out of all churches, then you lose all of your friends, lose your job, lose your family and then they run you out of town.