A review by niallgoulding1
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton

slow-paced

1.0

I'm baffled by this book's exceptional reviews. Clearly I'm missing something. This was the most disappointing and painfully dull read of my entire life. I went in with great expectations and assumed this book would add colour and life to my understanding of the Bible (grew up in a Catholic world; now agnostic so approaching this solely out of curiousity). Where I expected something that took us through the structure, the lost context, allusions, tropes, contradictions etc instead this is obsessed with academic minutiae about how many writers were involved. Wouldnt recommend this to my worst enemy