More than a single book, the Bible is something of a library: volumes of history, biography, poetry and ethical instruction, written by over forty authors across fifteen hundred years. And yet it is not a random assortment of literature with no unifying center. Amid the great variety, Scripture tells a single story.

It is common for interpreters to focus on either the unity or the distinctive diversity of the Bible and to lose the other in the process. In this compact volume Michael Riccardi guides the student of Scripture to miss neither the forest nor the trees, which is a more demanding discipline than either half alone. Short, and useful early in a reader's study habits.