Spectrum Magazine
vol. 34, no. 3, summer 2006

Contents
Noteworthy
Adventist media Find Bizarre Bedfellow for Ten Commandments Day
Hundred-Dollar Assassins
The A.T.S. Throws a Great Party
Loma Linda Researchers Help Save Endangered Turtles

The International Church
On Becoming a Conference: The Costa Rican Story
By Timothy Puko
Adventist University Accreditation suspended, Supreme Court rules against Church, and union president is dismissed, but all is well in Costa Rica.

The Bible
An Agenda for a New Kind of Literary Study of the Bible
By Robert Alter
Literary archaeology rather than literary analysis promises ample rewards for the reader.

Redesigning Genesis: One Artist’s Approach
By Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
Postmoderns deserve postmodern art in the Bible, too.

Divided Loyalties: A Dialogue on Translation
By Andrew Becraft and Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
With veiled meanings, spaces between words, and levels of politeness, who’s a translator to please?

How My Mind Has Changed and Remained the Same with Regard to Biblical Interpretation
By John Brunt
Texts do convey meanings that transcend their interpreters.

The Authority of Scripture: A Personal Pilgrimage
By Richard M. Davidson
Who has the final word?

"A Blessing in the Midst of the Earth": Traveling the Prophetic Highway in Isaiah
By Sigve Tonstad
Does God have an exodus planned for the enemy, too?

New Directions in Adventist-Muslim Relations
An Interview with Jerald Whitehouse
What do Adventists and Muslims share in common?

Looking for Middle Ground with Islam
By Børge Schantz
Is it possible to contextualize and negotiate between two relitions?

Israelite Genocide and Islamic Jihad
By Roy E. Gane
God sometimes gives up on groups of people and chooses to destroy them.

Jesus and Genocide: Another Alternative
By David R. Larson
Responding to Roy Gane’s view of biblical genocide

Journeys
Inside a Monastery, Inside My Heart
By John Hughson
An introduction to inner stillness, listening, and reflection.

Letters
Larson, Moyer, Newman, Edwards, Baldwin

Editorials
A Nature Walk through Revelation
By Bonnie Dwyer

How (If You Don’t Mind the Bother) to Read the Bible
By Charles Scriven

Poetry
Terrify Us with Your First Terror
By Julie Cook

 
 

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