The proposal of the journalist and writer Costanza Miriano is one not to be taken lightly. Indeed, reading the Bible smacks of a complex commitment, especially in the secularized world in which we live. A real challenge, that of Costanza Miriano, with the discovery of a text that contains all the answers , which contains the story of each of us and which can guide us in the difficult journey of life.
The Bible is to be leafed through, consumed, absorbed, listened to, incorporated. In short, to be taken seriously as suggested in the volume " The book that reads us " (Sonzogno, 2022, pp. 160, also e-book).
The biblical pages preserve characters, events and parables that even today - indeed, especially today - could be used as a compass to guide us among the thousand difficulties of everyday life, to dispel our doubts and to entrust us to those who know how to take care of us.
The Bible is then really to be read, as confirmed by Costanza Miriano:
«To the question why read the biblical text I could give answers à la page, such as saying that it contains cultural archetypes that cannot be ignored, which is also true, but in reality I read it because a lot of people with a more functioning brain of mine, like Saint Thomas and Saint Augustine, and many others, for two thousand years, an uninterrupted chain of friends who have risked their lives, have said that it is the word of God. And if God wants to tell me something, I am interested to figure out what. Then maybe I do as I please, but in the meantime I want to understand what he's telling me. Incidentally, whenever I do as I please, I give a cartload».
Why, as the title says, is the Bible a book that reads to us?
“The Bible is the story of a people who see God intervene in their history. It's not an intellectual fact, it's just a fact. God comes and speaks, somehow makes himself understood. He intervenes with Joseph, with Susanna, Esther, he intervenes in ways that I have seen repeated - because the Bible is God's grammar, it tells us how he speaks - in the lives of friends, which I tell. For example, the story of a people who are in bad shape, mix bricks with mud and are slaves of the pharaoh, therefore, agree to leave to get better, in my opinion it also says something about our lives».
