Entertaining Faith: Reading Short Stories in the Bible

In this book, Handy gives readers an overview of a number of Old Testement and Apocrypha stories, not as facts, but as stories. He presents the archetypes, both in plots and in characters. He explains the probable origins of the stories, as well as what they can (and cannot!) teach us about God today. And, thankfully, he gives us a good overview of each of the stories. (I say thankfully because as a Protestant, I have almost no experience with the Apocrypha. Now I'm going to get myself a Catholic Bible!)