I don’t plan on taking it as a serious source of life advice, and I imagine there’s a lot I can safely skip, but there’s gotta be some good stories in there right? Must be a reason it’s so popular?
Just skip to the wisdom section of the old testament to get some bronze age existentialism
Reading the old testament is only for masochists that read The Silmarillion and think "yeah, but what if I could have this with none of the redeeming qualities? "
All nerds belong in the gulag, no exceptions
Eh. They’re really not good from a storytelling perspective. They’re fascinating from a historical perspective, but that’s about it.
It won’t help you understand American Christians, but it will give you the language to own them.
It’s incredibly dull, even the stories. Read summaries
I took a New Testament class and we read some of Paul’s letters. Those might be useful to read since some of them are the few documents in the Bible who we actually know the author of, since they were literally letters from this dude to his congregations in the region.
