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Review title: A breath of fresh air!
Product review: How rare and wonderful to finally see an intelligent, well-researched piece of CRITICAL writing on the actual *content* of the Bible. Biblical scholars have argued about authorship and other topics for years, but this is the first book I've seen that concerns itself with the actual contents AND is directed to the general reader.I was amazed and disappointed by some of the negative comments I've seen -- comments that suggest to me that those people never gave the book more than a casual glance. Smith used not one but FOUR different translations of the Bible in his research, and his commentary does not give any indication that he's a demon-worshipping subversive, or that anyone else should be either. Rather, he indicates only that it's important to read the Bible with your brain, rather than uncritically accepting all the spoon-fed platitudes that most of us are brainwashed with throughout our childhood.
