There are many biblical books that fascinate me, from both the Old and the New Testaments. Reading Genesis, Exodus and the Psalms always moves me. Jeremiah fascinates me again and again. Job is wonderful. The Gospels are, of course, the centrepiece of revelation; then there is St Paul’s Letter to the Romans, then the Apocalypse... in short, it’s always difficult to say which book attracts me the most.
The closeness to one book or another also changes over time, depending on what you are experiencing. There are times when you need comfort, others when you need to express your pain, cry out in loneliness, and so on. Instead of books, I prefer to identify with the different characters of the Bible: with episodes, stories, journeys, people and communities that often go beyond a single book; the biblical patriarchs, for example, or Samuel, David, the prophets or the apostles.
