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

• Look at the specific Bible verse (many people stop here). • Look at the paragraph the verse is in. • Look at the chapter the Bible verse is in. • Look at the book of the Bible that the chapter and verse are in. • Look at where the book of the Bible the verse is in fits in the Bible’s whole storyline.