Sooner or later, it was to be expected: that citing the Bible as a source of authority could be considered a hate crime and even a crime against humanity. This is what has happened to Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party since 1995 and Minister of the Interior from 2011 to 2015. The case has been dragging on since 2019, and she has been tried twice, receiving an acquittal. But just last October 30, the matter reached the highest court, the Supreme Court, from which a verdict is now awaited.

"If we are not people of experience, we are useless," argued theologian, biblical scholar and parish priest of Sant Pere de Reixac, Josep Rius-Camps, who died in Barcelona at the age of 92. in the essential book of conversations with Ignasi Moreta, editor of Fragmenta, published in 2014This experience can take many forms: through affection, service, respect for others... A whole set of things that allow a person to define themselves not by what they see or judge, but by what they experience. What builds a person is a collection of experiences that are refined through awareness, which in turn completely transcend all the limits of the senses and even the brain. We are moving beyond the physical levels to enter the spiritual realm. [The author of the Augustinianum in Rome and the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia] is the author of numerous studies in Catalan, Spanish, and English on patristics (Origen, the Pseudo-Clementines, and Ignatius of Antioch) and on the New Testament (Mark and Luke –Deeds–). Catalan Journal of Theology From its founding in 1976 until 2008. The result of 15 years of work, in 2009 it published one of its most important books, Demonstration in Theophilus. Gospel and Acts of the Apostles according to the Codex Bezae (Fragmenta, 2009), in which she edited and translated, together with Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, Lluc's New Testament writings, restoring their unity and getting as close as possible to the original text. With Demonstration in TheophilusRius-Camps received the Ciutat de Barcelona prize for best translation of the year. Two years later, he adapted Luke's Gospel, which bears his name, into a novel. Acts of the Apostles, in Theophilus's Diary (Fragmenta, 2011).

In the book of Exodus, XX, which along with Leviticus is the most full of rules, rituals and commandments in the Bible, we read some very brutal things, typical of this vengeful god who is Yahweh, and others, more peaceful, that are valid for almost all mono religions.

A few days ago, La 2 aired John Huston's film The Bible (1966). The original title of the film is Bible: In The Beginning, although, committing an anglicism that is not found in this title, on La 2 it was read At first. Every reader of the first sentence of the Bible He knows that the Old Testament, which narrates the creation of the world according to Hebrew mythology, begins with these words: "In the beginning [or "In the beginning"] God created the heaven and the earth." But in the original Hebrew language, this beginning of the books of Moses is glazed due to the ambiguity of the word beresheet (beginning, principle, head) and the syntax of the first three verses.