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

Every Bible verse fits within a larger story, and whenever we read any verse, we want to: • 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.