- Posted January 22, 2026
I had a friend some time ago who loved to argue the Bible, and whenever we got to a…
I forget where I first saw the book title, How to Read the Bible, but I recall a certain, what shall we say, amusement. I thought, Find a comfortable chair, open the book and read. I think there may be a dozen books in print with that title, but a short review by the features editor of First Things was very useful in understanding what at least one of the authors was driving at. The article was titled The Bible Inside and Out by R.R. Reno.Professor Reno noted that To this day, modern biblical scholars ignore all interpreters of