IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS DARKNESS: 

A BLIND PERSON’S CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BIBLE


London, SCM Press, 1 March 2001, 176pp ISBN: 0 334 02821 3 

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When I lost my sight in 1980 and began to read the Bible in braille, I became aware of the negative attitude towards blindness which is typical of much of the Bible. However, I did not have an opportunity to investigate the subject until the late 1990s. In The Beginning is, as far as I know, the first book to interpret the Bible as a product of a sighted culture.

For other writings on this subject: (Blindness list) Bible links: Hellenistic and In the Beg

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