An Ancient Gold Glass Challenges Biblical Boundaries

03/08/2022 29 min
An Ancient Gold Glass Challenges Biblical Boundaries

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An interview with Eric C. Smith, PhD Eric C. Smith, a scholar of biblical studies, uses an ancient gold glass as an example of why we should expand our concepts of what we call 'biblical.' The Bible itself is an "assemblage" of people, history, geography, and oral traditions that contributed to the creation of some portion of the Bible. Objects of art depicting similar stories and events are also assemblages, in that the stories may have come from the same or similar sources.