Good on you! I tried doing this once and gave up in the middle of Deuteronotomy.
I’m doing the encyclopedia as well. I have a lot of spare time on my hands 
. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.
ETA: Don’t read if you haven’t finished Harry Potter 7.
Jesus is a horcrux
I found This Bible to be very helpful if you want to just read the Bible as a book. It edits out a lot of the Jewish law and the begats, and lays out the various books in straightforward poetry and prose form, without chapter and verse breaks. It’s very readable, entertaining even. It’s not complete, though.
Safety, I think.
(sorry, I’ll go away now.)
Either that or Quantity…
I’ve never read it cover to cover, but I have read all the books –just not in order. I’m quite fond of Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs in the Old Testament, as well as Isaiah from Chapter 40 onward. The New Testament has its nice moments as well – IIRC, Romans is quite interesting. It’s also fun to read a commentary on a book if you’re especially fond of it.
It’s also worth pointing out that getting an overarching sense of what’s going on in the Bible, while vital to any kind of philosophy derived from it, is extremely difficult. Actually, it can be quite difficult to find a thread within a single book. Is the book a meditation, a history, a parable, or what? Is the author presenting/examining a view or promoting it? Take Ecclesiastes; as the commentary I read pointed out, there is not one philosophy described in the book, but two: a universe without meaning and a universe with meaning.
Bible-quoting matches always annoy me, in that they ignore the question What is the author trying to say? by focusing purely on how s/he says it. (Okay, pretty much always “he” in the Bible, but you see my point.)
Go for it. A bit over 30 years ago, I wrote on a message board that since I read all my fantasy books, I’d read the entire Bible if someone sent one. Someone did, I read the whole thing and posted comments. I still have my notes around somewhere. I bogged down in the repetition between Chronicles and Kings. I really bogged down in the NT, since it seemed such arrant nonsense. However, it always has been useful to say I read the entire thing.
And the Bible itself I got is in my collection under G for God (house pseudonym).
Out of curiosity, Captain Socks, which version/translation are you reading?
Incidentally, Psalms andProverbs can be a bit much in one go, simply because they have no plot (duh) and are so ridiculously long.
Also, forgot to mention, I’ve tried reading the Koran. I think I got about six pages in – I swear that thing makes the Bible look easy. I may have another go whenever I get some spare time and don’t have any pressing reading needs.
Follow the Bible with Creeds of the Churches to see what Man has done with what is thought to be Holy Writ. Very enlightening.
Then off to the Q’uran and the 'Gita.
(Side note: I have all of the above, along with the Book of Mormon and the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the shelf by my desk at school. Always gets so raised eyebrows on Back-To-School Night.)
Col. Mustard did it in the library with the candlestick.
There, you don’t have to waste any more time reading it.