In 2005, I published How to Read the Bible, where I made the sustained argument for the historical-critical method is the way to understand the Hebrew Bible. Soon after it came out, an acquaintance of mine said to me: “I enjoyed your book, but its title shows real chutzpah, even arrogance. It is claiming that your way, following a specific set of academic ‘rules,’ is the way, the only way to read the Bible.”For more on the series, see here.I still think about this comment from twenty years ago. And in these two intervening decades I have changed my mind, even on the level of title.
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