21.   Scholars are reinterpreting biblical texts, historical traditions, liturgies, and ethics of Christian faith -- offering creative visions of a global and inclusive faith.

22.   Still, finding in the biblical texts an echo of corporate language can make readers feel that they have a decidedly new translation of Scripture.

23.   That very tradition of examining biblical texts is what brought Reimer and Kates together.

24.   The biblical text is a monument of human belief, intricately overlaying archeological strata from different traditions.

25.   The biblical texts have been canonized for two millenniums, extending from Genesis through Ecclesiastes and Job.

26.   The concept of final days comes from biblical texts, the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.

27.   The original biblical text in Exodus is far more laconic.

28.   Those who created modern Israel, David Ben-Gurion and the rest, did not seek to found its legitimacy on biblical text.

29.   Widely practiced in the ancient world, biblical texts seem to support slavery.

30.   A booming Yiddish publishing industry churned out thousands of Yiddish-language books each year, everything from school manuals and Biblical texts to translations of Freud and Dostoevsky.