read the bible

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The Bible isn't really "a book" its 73 books (less if you are Protestant, more if you are Orthodox), with many authors, many genres and many writing styles. Some are interesting some are quite dry.

I would have to disagree, if it these were their own books then they would be independent works yet it seems that there is a lot of interdependence in the books of the bible. Therefore, coupled with the fact that it is a collection of books in one publication (which is also a type of book; Anthlogy), I would claim that it is one book written by many authors, like a really dysfunctional game of consequences.
Books should certainly not be read

in light of Tradition and Magisterium

as this is unquestioning and nobody ever changes anything by accepting it unquestioningly