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

Just remember, whenever you open your Bible to a page, you are walking into an ancient historical library of sixty-six books written over a 1,500-year time period. The author was writing in a specific time period and addressing a specific culture.