What Matters in Life

A FEW DAYS AGO, GEORGE W. BUSH ACCUSED Iran of being a threat to the world. Speaking in Abu Dhabi, the third stop of his tour of Arab allies, Bush said Shi’ite Muslim Iran was the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism.

THE WORD “BIBLE” derives from the Greek “Ta Biblia,” which means “The Books.” It is the sacred text of Judaism and Christianity and arguably the most influential book of all time. Throughout the centuries, people of all countries have been enthralled by the importance of its message and the beauty of its literature, and scholars have been devoting to it an entire apparatus of critical analysis—called biblical exegesis—which has been approached in two ways: on the one hand…