Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith
Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith
Robert M. Price (Logos has at least 3 of his books)
Tellectual Press
This is an excellent commentary to identify your assumptions in interpretation that are the result of your upbringing/faith. This allow you to read the Bible with fewer biases and to choose the assumptions you use rather than being blind to them.
Amazon blurb:
In this first of a comprehensive two-volume study of the Old and New Testaments, Dr. Robert M. Price builds a spacious and sturdy ark to carry Bible readers over the floods of mystery that have long perplexed them. Why are there multiple creation stories? Who are the “sons of god” in Genesis? What’s really going on with those Isaiah passages that preachers love to read at Christmas? Putting a lifetime of biblical scholarship hard at work on perhaps his most momentous project yet, Dr. Price explains the mysteries without scorning them. The beloved old Bible is revealed to be indeed a Fable, but still a Holy one in its sprawling and fascinating way.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."