I would suggest that the use of hermeneutics has been infected with culture, and more recently the political lens of the “left” or “right,” which are relatively new worldviews. Hermeneutics (how to interpret a text) has become key for the identities of many faith groups. Before that, AJ Jacobs, editor of Esquire, published The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. Situating Barr’s work in the midst of other efforts on the concept of biblical living, I think of Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which conveyed the absurdity and futility of living in the 21st century as a woman who follows a wooden interpretation of the Bible. Is Biblical Womahood Really a Conversation About Culture?
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