Naming the animals
R V Bailey welcomes a new look at some Bible stories
Even if you couldn’t read it, in previous centuries the Bible was thought important. It had a kind of magic power. It might even be useful: being able to quote a verse of Psalm 51 might save you from the gallows. Nowadays the Bible, for many people, would be handier as a doorstop. Like the tins at the back of the larder, it’s out-of-date.
The Bible’s stories seem rather like fairy stories that parents might tell their children – if, indeed, they can find the stories in such a sea of unreadable small print double-columns.
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