The Bible is not a book of theology, catechism, or systematic theology; there is nothing in it that corresponds to modern Western notions of religion, and there is no word for religion in biblical Hebrew.
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“the Bible is not a book of theology...there's nothing in the Bible that really corresponds to prevailing modern western notions of religion...there's no word for religion in the language of biblical Hebrew”
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