Surprisingly, he believed that much of the world has less difficulty understanding the Bible than modern Americans. He writes: In a sense, the Bible is the most translatable religious book that has ever been written, for it comes from a particular time and place (the western end of the Fertile Crescent) through which passed more cultural patterns and out from which radiated more distinctive features and values than any other place in the history of the world. If one were to make a comparison of the culture traits of the Bible with those of all the existing cultures of today . . . one would
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