Introduction

This blog is one of a number of blogs connected to a class on Scripture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that I taught Wheaton College in the Fall Semester of 2005. This blog contains my posts, but please read the blogs of the students in the class organized by name in the links to the right, to get a full sense of the reactions, insights, and observations prompted by the readings and experiences of the course. In a sense, aren't we are ourselves creating tradition and "scripture" by referring back to earlier interpretations of the same texts and subjects? Tradition is a conversation of a community of interpreters of scriptures that crosses the barriers of time, space, and even our own mortality.