Fun fact: If you do one of those "read the Bible in a year" schedules and include the Apocrypha, the entire month of December is just the Epistles and Revelation.

And all but three days of July is just Jeremiah.

@danialexis I found a very different study recently from thebibleproject.com , which doesn't follow the usual pattern. But I wasn't actually aware of your fun fact! 🙃

@wolfwoman @danialexis The issue with the "Read the bible in a year is there is no research included. What do I mean by that? A Baptist preacher told me that "dancing is forbidden due too, lust, drinking and every time a dance was held in the bible calamity followed". He gave me the tools to research seeing as there was no Net yet, a Strong's Concordance. He was only 1/2 right, 7 times yes and 7 times no! Observe

@Mikethewander1 @wolfwoman For me, the entire point of the project this year has been to read the Bible without commentary - just to see what's there and follow my own interpretational instincts.

I've done the study guide thing, but I have never just...listened. It completely changed my relationship to this library (not the least in that I no longer call the Bible a "book" or think of it as a single unit).

@danialexis @Mikethewander1 That's quite an accomplishment! 8 have done a variety of studies over the years but never that. I fear I must have directions at least what to read each day.

I am with you 100% that it's definitely not a single unit! I like the cultural context and especially like the biographical notes about the authors of different books.

@wolfwoman @danialexis "The Bible a "book" or think of it as a single unit". It's not.
Is the Bible history?
It mentions some places and events that are indeed historical BUT does that make it a history book? NO!

My Dad is a Vietnam War Veteran and we KNOW Vietnam exists, wrote and published a book with the backdrop of the Vietnam War- FOUR years ago. Other than that the book is pure fiction!
NO "biblical archaeology". Other than some places and events, it is NOT a history book!