Hi Christina — yes I agree there is a risk of “oversimplifying” when we recognise the Bible is indeed “separate books written throughout history”. But glad you agree there is a unifying story, what they call a “meta-narrative”. I certainly think there is!

Well I should understand how the bible hangs together having completed a degree in History/Theology though having done the degree in a secular University I was of course told that it did not hang together!! It was, they said separate books written throughout history with very little in the way of a unifying theme!!! Of course as a Christian I could see the logic of secular minds but having been taught well in my childhood, I understood it’s overall message played out through many scenes in scriptural history.

Thanks for this succinct and clever effort to gather up the threads — and make them make sense! I am sure this blog will be a great help to many of us.