The Bible: A Very Short Introduction

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Author: John Riches

Book length: 176 pages

Excerpt: During the First Crusade, Hebrew chronicles recount that some Jewish communities, faced with massacre or forced conversion, chose collective martyrdom.

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Recalling strengthens the memory.

3 questions
1. According to the notes, what best describes how most material in the Bible reached written form?
2. What does the material say about the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament)?
3. How do the notes suggest some readers reconcile the apparent contradiction between Exodus' 'eye for an eye' and Matthew's 'turn the other cheek'?
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