The following is taken from a lecture by N.T. Wright concerning the "Authority of Scripture." He is encouraging Christians to read larger portions of scriptures so that Christians better understand the authority of the God's Holy Word. Hence, reading the Bible in a new manner not necessarily with different meaning.
"In private reading, and in informal group meetings, we need again to experiment with new ways of reading scripture. Anyone who has heard an entire biblical book read... will realize that such things as chapter-divisions, or almost any divisions at all, can be simply unhelpful.
We need to recapture a sense of scripture as a whole, telling and retelling stories as wholes. Only when you read Exodus as a whole (for example) do you realize the awful irony whereby the making of the golden calf is a parody of what God wanted the people to do with their gold and jewels . . . and only by reading Mark as a whole might you realize that, when the disciples ask to sit at Jesus’ right and left hand, they are indeed asking for something they do not understand."
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