Rightly recognized as one of the world's most important spiritual texts, the Bible has shaped thousands of years of faith, art, and human history. Yet for all its importance to believers and nonbelievers alike, we rarely engage the Bible in its own context: as a collection of unique narratives that were only later united into what we now know as?the Old and New Testaments. And these different texts-historical narratives, dramatic visions, poems, songs,...