{"id":1067,"date":"2007-04-25T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/04\/new-study-on-plusses-of-bible-study.html"},"modified":"2007-04-25T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T15:12:00","slug":"new-study-on-plusses-of-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/04\/new-study-on-plusses-of-bible-study.html","title":{"rendered":"New Study on Plusses of Bible Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/bible_chat.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/bible_chat.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a movement afoot to get the Bible taught as literature in more grade schools and high schools. Sounds like an idea that will really inflame a lot of people, but <a href=\"http:\/\/webmail.aol.com\/25045\/aol\/en-us\/Mail\/display-message-body.aspx?folder=New%20Mail&amp;uid=1.15571042&amp;user=r-fx3IDit8#RESULTS_OF_THREE_SCIENTIFIC_STUDIES_\" target=\"_new\">this study by William Jeynes<\/a> (a non-resident scholar at Baylor University and a professor at California State University in Long Beach) indicates that Bible literacy can lead to greater student achievement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students who possessed high levels of Bible knowledge achieved at higher academic levels and were more likely to demonstrate positive behavior patterns than those with lower levels of Bible knowledge,&#8221; Jeynes says, going on to add:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One cannot thoroughly understand Shakespeare, Dickens, Dostoevsky, or Tolstoy without a solid knowledge of the Bible. Furthermore, to comprehend the effect of the life saving miracle of George Washington, the abolition of slavery, the women&#8217;s suffrage movement, and the civil rights movement, one needs a sufficient knowledge of biblical principles. Students that possess such knowledge will indubitably have an academic advantage.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This sounds similar to what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Religious-Literacy-American-Know-Doesnt\/dp\/0060846704\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-4397699-7304635?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1177516451&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;Religious Literacy&#8221;<\/a>  author <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/religion_in_school.html\" target=\"_new\">Stephen Prothero has been saying<\/a>. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a movement afoot to get the Bible taught as literature in more grade schools and high schools. 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