Blogging Blast #5: Once Upon a Time…(I do so love stories)

I have no analogy today, but a story.  So here goes: once upon a time…

…I read a little book, the first in a series entitled “Bible Guides”, which premiered in the early 1960’s.  It was authored by biblical theologian William Barclay, who, at the time of this publishing, was Professor of New Testament at the University of Glasgow.  This first little study book is entitled “The Making of the Bible”.  Now all that might sound a bit stuffy, (unless you like that sort of thing, which I do), until you get to about page 67.

This is where Dr. Barclay starts talking about how the