(Image) In this article, biblical scholar Michael Coogan describes the Bible as an anthology of texts composed over centuries by different sets of authors. Mainstream Jewish and Christian ...

The Bible is not to be understood and read in the same way as other historical documents. Although the authors did include many historical facts and truths, this was not their main aim.

They all believed the author of the Bible was God, that it was therefore a perfect book, that it had strong moral agendas and that it was abidingly relevant. Interpretation had to show how it was ...