Eangelical Christians lack no zeal in their love for Scripture, but they often lack a strategy for reading it with understanding. Believers frequently ignore the broad outlines of narrative and plot, focusing instead on "what this text means to me." Interpretation is a suspect, and liberalizing, tendency that silences the Bible's "literal" meaning. Tremper Longman's How to Read Genesis-along with his similar volumes on Psalms and Proverbs-is a welcome and helpful corrective to these errors.
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Brian J. Lee works for a federal agency in Washington, D.C.
Issue: "Does God believe in Atheists?" March/April Vol. 15 No. 2 2006 Pages 38
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