Your post took me back 40 years to a conversation I had with a great friend, who became a missionary in the Yukon.
He encouraged me to read the whole Bible by saying “What if you’re in Heaven someday and Obadiah comes along and says “Hi, I’m Obadiah. Have you read my book?”
LOL! I hope to be able to sit some of the writers down and make them clarify their pronoun antecedents and go into *real detail*.
When I teach Sunday School, I always tell the students that they need to have a Bible in a version that they enjoy reading. “Make your parents go to the used book store!” Then they should start reading at 1 Samuel.