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

In the examples of United States laws about donkeys and bathtubs and ice cream cones in back pockets, the first step in understanding them is looking at the backstory. So let’s apply the same approach to the laws that prohibit shrimp, blends of fabric, and football. Who were these Bible verses written to? The ancient Israelites.