The most remarkable record a people ever left

So the Bible is in the first place a history. It is the record of a people, in fact the most remarkable record a people has ever left, for future generations, of all it did, suffered, believed, thought, and hoped. It is the record of a family, Abraham's, kept for about two thousand years, the record of a family that from the Patriarch to Jesus can be followed in its human destiny as well as in its providential mission. That is what gives unity to the Bible and all its heterogeneous parts.

Henri Daniel-Rops, What is the Bible?

I love this little known French author. He wrote a multi-volume series of the history of the Church up to his own time. He wrote many great books including St. Vincent de Paul,  Daily Life in the Time of Jesus, Jesus and  His Times, and he wrote this book about the Bible which is a favorite of mine.