Who said the following?
“[Without the Bible] it’s like using a dictionary with one-third of the words removed.”
[T]he lack of “Bible knowledge is almost crippling in students’ ability to be sophisticated readers.”
“The Bible is the foundational text, certainly of the West … We need to know more, and we need to know it better.”
Answers on the other side of the break.
George P. Landow, professor, Brown University
Ulrich Knoepflmacher, professor, Princeton University
David Kastan, professor, Columbia University
Not exactly institutions of higher learning which are friendly toward Judaism and Christianity. Yet these gentlemen are among numerous professors who participated in a study by the Bible Literacy Project, which sought to learn more about the link between biblical literacy and education.
Every professor surveyed agreed with the following statement:
“Regardless of a person’s faith, an educated person needs to know about the Bible.”
I took two classes in college, one for each testament of the modern Bible, which treated the Bible as literacy, and even though I was a believer, it was still a great educational experience. If you consider yourself an enlightened individual, yet have never studied the biblical text, faith issues aside, you really are missing out.
[Quotes and source information courtesy of PFM’s Breakpoint e-mail.]