A review by juliasilge
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns

5.0

This is less academic than the other couple of books I've read by [a:Peter Enns|157907|Peter Enns|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1409176219p2/157907.jpg]; it's funny, engaging, and important. Some of Enns' points are really challenging for the faith background I come from but his overall thesis here is extremely compelling. The Bible is an ancient near Eastern document written in a specific cultural context and we do it as a document (that we want to take seriously!) and ourselves a disservice when we minimize that, or even ignore that. A really helpful book for processing why I have often thought or believed certain things.