THE DEATH OF BIBLICAL LITERACY
FeaturesThe death of biblical literacyGwion Wyn Jones[Getty Images]Gwion Wyn Jones12 September 20269:00 AM We are often told these days, most recently in James Marriott’s much talked about book TheNew Dark Ages, that the world has a problem with reading. During such an emergency, then, itcould be quite invidious to claim that some manifestations of this problem may be more or lessbad than others. But it is difficult not to bemoan especially one crisis that cannot be blamedentirely on bloated screen times: the decline of biblical literacy. I have observed this first-hand when teaching history undergraduates at Oxford. These are thebrightest…