{"id":105,"date":"2012-08-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-03-22T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:02:36","slug":"people-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"People of the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/the-bible-museum-and-the-importance-of-appreciating-religious-textual-history\/2012\/08\/14\/1a28cfdc-e61f-11e1-8741-940e3f6dbf48_story.html\">latest piece<\/a> in the Washington Post&#8217;s local On Faith site. \u00a0Apparently, the piece, or part of it, will run on page B-2 of the Saturday print edition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I first heard the phrase \u201cpeople of the book\u201d in conversation during college when I was living in Bahrain, the small island country located on the western edge of the Persian Gulf. \u00a0The discussion was political, not heated but lively, with a group from a variety of religious and non-religious backgrounds. \u00a0At one point, a Muslim friend whom I had known for several months commented about his preference for discussing such issues with knownChristians, because he knew that he could trust them to debate fairly, as they were \u201cpeople of the book.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But is it a helpful distinction?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/the-bible-museum-and-the-importance-of-appreciating-religious-textual-history\/2012\/08\/14\/1a28cfdc-e61f-11e1-8741-940e3f6dbf48_story.html\">here . . .<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is my latest piece in the Washington Post&#8217;s local On Faith site. \u00a0Apparently, the piece, or part of it, will run on \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=105\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Samaritan-Pentateuch.jpg?fit=940%2C585&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}