Some useful points about reading Biblical narrative from Julian Freeman:
If you’ve ever begun to read through the Old Testament and been filled with more questions than answers, you’re not alone. Many of the stories of the OT are hard to understand and hard to apply.
Here are ten hopefully helpful principles for interpreting Old Testament narrative. It’s important that we get this right, since this genre of Scripture makes up about 66% of our whole Bible.
For a more extended article on the final point he offers, Gary Millar’s article from November last year is excellent.
