“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
“An important aspect of Nonconformity was its cult of the Bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the Bible takes much of its colour from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.”
Melodrama: The Silver King (1993).
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Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (1925–1991) Israeli linguist
Of his analysis of mediaeval Biblical manuscripts.
"Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts" (Biblica, 48 (1967), pp.243-290)
“The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature,”
Frederic G. Kenyon (1863–1952) British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar
Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4
Context: The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.
“The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.”
H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)
“My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 118
“Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Paris Review interview (1958)
Penn Jillette (1955) American magician
p. 42 http://books.google.com/books?id=KsI3sswEg14C&pg=PA42&dq=%22reading+the+bible+is+the+fast+track+to+atheism%22 <br class="br">2010s, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Some Mistakes of Moses (1879) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38802/38802-h/38802-h.htm Preface <br class="br">Context: Too great praise challenges attention, and often brings to light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see. Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other books, we would admire its beauties, treasure its worthy thoughts, and account for all its absurd, grotesque and cruel things, by saying that its authors lived in rude, barbaric times. But we are told that it was written by inspired men; that it contains the will of God; that it is perfect, pure, and true in all its parts; the source and standard of all moral and religious truth; that it is the star and anchor of all human hope; the only guide for man, the only torch in Nature's night. These claims are so at variance with every known recorded fact, so palpably absurd, that every free unbiased soul is forced to raise the standard of revolt.
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) American abolitionist, writer
Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 355
