Zeba Crook The Bible Interpretation

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Bible interpretation is a website of scholarly articles designed for public and scholarly audiences who are interested in the Bible study. This webpage is written by Zeba Crook, a professor in Carleton University, with a thorough work cited. The website is sponsored by religious departments of several Universities and there are clear contact information listed, so from the authority perspectives, this source should be trustworthy and reliable. In this web page, Crook aims to focus on a secular translation of the Bible and compares it to a theological one. Crook claims that secular translation is no worse than theological one but only different from it. The purpose of this article is quite clear: it targets both the public and the scholars,

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