This is a book that I gladly recommend.

If you’ve ever stumped your toe while trying to fulfill a commitment to, at least once in your life, read the Bible through with some of those strange (very strange) stories and teachings in the Old Testament, well here’s some steel-toed shoes to help you work through them without too much pain.

Copan is readable, balanced, sensitive to 21st Century thinking without compromising the world that the ancients lived in.

Whether you are an honest skeptic or a faithful believer in the Bible record, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God would be an excellent travel guide (along with those steel-toed shoes) to help you navigate through the complexities of a must-read: The Bible.