From RNS-Brent Strawn was teaching at a Methodist church in Atlanta when he asked his class to identify the origin of Jesus’ well-known cry from the cross — “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Silence.
The Emory University professor of the Old Testament was stunned.
How could it be that these mostly older adults, faithful lifelong churchgoers, didn’t know that Jesus was quoting directly from Psalm 22?
That’s when it dawned on him: The Old Testament is dying.
That realization, now a book by the same name, argues that many contemporary Christians have lost biblical fluency and can no longer speak the language of more than half their sacred Scripture.
More here-
http://religionnews.com/2017/05/18/is-the-old-testament-dying/
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