Neal Swettenham

Reading the Bible with Its Writers

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The question of how we interpret Scripture—and interpret it we must—is a centuries-old challenge and will continue to be so, no doubt, until Jesus returns. Steve Burnhope’s excellent new book, Reading the Bible with Its Writers, takes a deceptively simple, yet richly suggestive, approach to this complex issue. Burnhope invites us to take the big themes of the Bible as our first and most important interpretive key, then consider genre and its implications as the second. Rather than reaching for our favorite ‘proof texts,’ this way of reading the biblical texts honors both their human and divine origins and challenges us again to think carefully about what it means to call them ‘the Word of God.’”