Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A useful guide

Holladay begins by presenting the 10 major problems that Christians have with the Old Testament, and then rather than pretend that they can be easily handled or dismissed, he simply acknolwedges them and moves on to his exposition. I found this to be very honest and frankly comforting. The author does offer some solid advice on ways to deal with difficult Old Testament passages, but he never says "grit your teeth and believe it".His approach reveals a scholarly background, but this book is accessible to the layman. If you are dedicated to the inerrancy and/or verbal inspiration of the Bible, be warned -- he isn't. But he does take the Bible seriously as the record of the history of God's dealings with people.My biggest complaint is that he constantly uses phrases like "Jesus is remembered as having said..." or "Jeremiah understood God to be telling him...." Whatever the academic merits of such phrases may be, they are stylistic death.