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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The Bible is not meant to be read like a book. [/b] It's not a history book and it's not a novel.  [b]It's a compilation[/b] of books and letters originally written from about 4,000 to 2,000 years ago in several ancient languages.

Maybe you should first read a book about how the Bible was made.  Here's one dealing with the old testament only,  a good place to start:  https://www.amazon.com/Wrote-Bible-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/0060630353

Here's a summary of how both the OT and NT were written http://bibleresources.americanbible.org/resource/how-the-bible-came-to-us that seems to be scholarly.[/quote]

Eh. There is considerable evidence that  Genesis-Exodus-Leviticus-Numbers-Joshua-Judges were redacted into what the redactor(s) tried to make read like on overarching narrative, even if they left in lots of material suggestive of earlier distinct texts and oral traditions.   And 1 and 2 samuel and 1 and 2 Kings extend that narrative.

No its not a novel in the modern sense (though with novelistic scenes) and its not a modern history, but it is the holy history of the people Israel as that people (or a segment of it) had come to see it.   IIRC Friedman would not disagree with that. [/quote]

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