How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

This backstory provides a starting point for looking more closely at the Bible verses we’ve read from Exodus and Leviticus, the ones that sound so crazy to us. Let’s try to understand them through the lens of who they were originally written to and why.