12th August, 2011

LINDA ADAMS

“Dig Deeper “ - Tools to Unearth the Bible’s Treasure

Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sach

Inter-Varsity Press, Nottingham, 2005

ISBN-13: 978-1844741038

The great thing about this book is the encouragement it provides for reading your Bible. The authors provide a range of simple 'tools' through which to access your Bible which are easy to use but also, even for someone who's been reading the Bible for many years, can give a new insight.

Dig Deeper begins with considering what type of book the Bible is and how we should read it. The authors describe the Bible as divine as well human, containing stories about real people in real situations. It is alive - revealing God’s truth by the Spirit’s revelation - and not a dead history. Most importantly, it shows that God is in charge.

The 16 tools include a "genre tool" which looking at understanding how the books of the Bible need to be read in terms of the genre in which they fit in - as poetry, for example, a "repetition tool" which looks at how repetition is used to emphasise a point, and a "linking words tool" which examines how words are used to show cause and effect.

Other tools invite the reader to think about who has written the book and to whom, to read the Bible as a novel and not a dictionary, to remember the timing of events in the Bible and how that timing relates to us and how using a second translation can help our understanding.

At the end of each chapter there is an example of how to use each of the tools provided and to end the book we are encouraged to pray with repentance and thanksgiving and the power of The Spirit.

I would highly this book recommend to others who are looking to learn more about God and His people and to deepen their relationship with Him.

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