March 10th Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background

March 10  Readings        Read Mark 11:1-13:37    Myers, Chapters 16, 17, 18, pages 143-180

 Background: Jesus entry into Jerusalem is street theater. His strategy is to break “the spell of credulity”—the net cast over all people. Myers invites us to examine “texts of terror”—those biblical stories that are particularly violent—and offers guidelines for reading the Bible and interpreting these texts.

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