
It Ain't Necessarily So - When Scripture and Tradition Collide
A line from the song "It Ain''t Necessarily So," from the Gershwin brothers'' play "Porgy and Bess," tells us that "the things that you''re liable to read in the Bible, it ain''t necessarily so." While we would like to take issue with that comment, this book, of the same title as the song, explores the validity of such a seemingly heretical statement. But it isn''t what we read, so much as h...
A line from the song "It Ain''t Necessarily So," from the Gershwin brothers'' play "Porgy and Bess," tells us that "the things that you''re liable to read in the Bible, it ain''t necessarily so." While we would like to take issue with that comment, this book, of the same title as the song, explores the validity of such a seemingly heretical statement. But it isn''t what we read, so much as h...