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Understanding the Bible isn’t for the few, the gifted, or the scholarly—it’s for everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. Just a few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its relevance to your twenty-first-century life. More than three-quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for...

Given all this diversity, both inside and outside the church, and all the differences even among scholars, who supposedly know “the rules,” it is no wonder that some argue for no interpretation, just reading. But as we have noted, this is a false option. The antidote to bad interpretation is not no interpretation but good interpretation, based on commonsense guidelines. The authors of this book labor under no illusions that by reading and following our guidelines everyone will finally agree on the
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