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One Good Book deserves another

The Century invited people to comment on their favorite book of the Bible and a book that has helped them appreciate or understand the biblical text. Their replies are linked below.

Unsettled in the beginning, by Debbie Blue: I love Genesis for some of the same reasons the church fathers were wary of it. . . .

Someone else's liberation, by Jane McBride: Reading Exodus together with Isabel Wilkerson reminds me that the biblical story is not told from my point of view. . . .