Reading the Bible as a Postexilic Biblical Author Read

Millions of Christians read the Bible not only to know what happened in ancient biblical times but also to find God's message to them. Consequently, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time. However, scholars have observed that over the past two hundred years, biblical interpretation in the West has traditionally focused mainly on studying what the text meant. For Western biblical scholars, the study of what the Bible means to readers today falls within the realm of theological studies rat