Politesse
Lux Aeterna
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I do intend to read it all, but given time constraints I want to skip around a bit first. With the number of books I have on the go at any given time, and a baby on the way in four months it'd take me a long, long time to go from cover to cover.
No problem there. I don't think it's a text that needs to be read sequentially. Indeed, different Bibles are printed in different orders, and none of those orders are strictly chronological or topical, so reading it from cover to cover doesn't necessarily mean the same read for a Catholic as a Protestant, or for a Christian as a Jew. The only books whose order should be maintained are those that were meant as sequels to one another; so Luke and Acts should be read together, as should most books that have a number in front of them. 1 and 2 Kings are actually just one large book, that had to be split into two codices due to technical limitations in the early days.