Reviewed by Nicholas King SJSPCK, 112pp, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Tel 01420 592974 How are we to read the Bible today? Enzo Bianchi’s answer, in this remarkable little volume, is to listen out for the voice that asks us, “Where are you?”; and that invites from us in return, as we make our long inner journey (which, as Bianchi points out, is also that of Abraham), the (sometimes anguished) question, “God, where are you?” Would-be readers of the Old Testament often claim to be put off by what they deem to be, or have heard might be, stories that present a very ill-tempered and bloodthirsty God. The great merit of Bianchi is that he takes the biblical text very seriously indeed, reads below its surface, and, without ever becoming obscure, turn