This book is a challenge and a necessity: the return of religion in what is more obscure, through the various fundamentalisms requires for anyone believing or not, to have a critical and distanced texts (?) , biblical here. It is precisely here, take the Scriptures seriously: refuse to confine them in a reading tradition ... or make a justification to judge or condemn. Thomas Römer avoids two pitfalls on these texts that make us jump, tremble ... or go to the next paragraph: do apologetics, or ignore the pretext that it is written that would be canceled by the New Testament. Some chapters of 20 pages, dense, which need to have some knowledge of the biblical environment and the composition of the various books and the Jewish canon. The author claims to provide answers on the violence of certain passages in the Hebrew Bible, the "personality" of a tribal God and vengeful, bigoted, bloodthirsty, and so on. The fact is that if the interpretation trails are very intelligent, it is often reduced to conjecture ... In fact reading remains open, and it's one of the great merits of this book. It's good exegesis, with the limits of the latter, which speaks to us and encourages us to widen. I remember the story told by a relative, who asked many questions about the biblical writings and the problems they posed. The response of a good priest was: "do not deepen, you would lose the faith." What was. The reading and meditation books like this excellent essay proves that the opposite is possible: ask the questions, deepen, admit to not have an answer, continue to grow. The Spirit blows where it wants and when he wants. Let the night by time (see some great mystics) and do not rageons too fast behind the first pastor or first come catechism
