Reply #23: What you have determined is that the book has no theological value and, by extension,

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that theology itself has no value. That is another discussion altogether.

Assuming, however, that theology has value and that theology by its very nature is based on revelation not investigation, then the secular scholarly disciplines can indeed provide theologians - and believers - a coherent and harmonious narrative of that revelation.

If one simply does not believe, then it's an idle exercise.