The Bible: A Very Short Introduction

Short review: This is not nearly as good as Mark Noll's book in this series on Protestantism. It is just not organized all that well. About 50 pages are how the bible was written and the formation of the canon. That leaves about 110 pages that are about how the bible has used in politics and culture, or how different groups have understood scripture (Diests, Reformers, Feminists, Post-colonial liberation theologians, etc.)

What is here isn't all bad, but what is not here is pretty telling. There isn't any actual content about what is in the bible. So as a whole I think it is quite lacking.

My full review is at http://bookwi.se/bible-riches/