Thursday, September 19, 2013

Introduction

I'm a Christian, but I have to admit that I don't know the Bible as well as I ought.  Every time I read my Bible I keep discovering so much about it that I didn't know before.  While there are unifying themes across the whole Bible, there are also interesting characteristics unique to each of its books.  I decided that a good activity for me would be to attempt to blog about every book of the Bible, giving a quick synopsis about what that particular book is about.  That way, I could have a better mental map of the context of each book, and maybe also help others who are trying to dive into these various passages of scripture.

As a caveat, I have to admit I have no special training in the Bible, and I quite possibly will be getting some things wrong during this process.  Feel free to correct me in my mistakes, or comment on important aspects of these books that I might be missing.

I am also going to try (if possible) to avoid as much as I can some of the more speculative topics involving some of these books.  The synopses I'll be writing should hopefully be useful for people regardless of the denomination they are a part of (or even whether or not they are religious at all).

Oh, and one last thing.  I won't be literally reading all of these books straight through while I do this, so I definitely might be missing out on some key points to make while I do this.  This will definitely be a high-level "bird's eye view" of these books.

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    1. Thanks! Hopefully it's interesting to other people. It'll be interesting to see what kind of comments and input I get from the posts on each book. I think the more obscure books will be the most interesting for me to post about, because a lot of them I really have very little idea about what they are about.

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