In what way is it shallow? I'm advocating for reading the whole Bible, and reading it deeply and critically: by reading the best available scholarly editions, by reading it alongside critical commentary, and by reading it alongside other contemporaneous works of fiction. It seems to me that's a reasonably deep perspective. The shallow perspective is the one usually practiced by Christians: reading the bible piecemeal, cherry-picking passages, reading it in isolation from other fiction of the time, and reading it uncritically as an ethical manual.