Ch. 7 -- really nothing new here, as Avalos whines incessantly about relevance and how religious many scholars are. Isn't that just too bad for him.

Ch. 8 -- Also a lot more of the same, as Avalos whines from his comfortable classroom and his squirrel-watching duties to complain about how Biblical scholars don't do anything to help the poor, etc. which is presumably a crime because we don't have any real charities out there to do the work. While I don't doubt that there are some scholars out there who are a waste of space (Avalos is one, certainly), such a complaint coming from a hypocrite like Avalos bears no weight.

Ch. 9 -- Ditto here, though it is kind of funny that Avalos makes something of The Da Vinci Code having "challenged many common Christian beliefs" [325 -- which is rather a positive spin!] when his two fellow Skeptics, Ehrman and Price, managed to jump on the gravy train and write books on it. (Presumably Bart is excused from the hypocrisy and neglect Hector paints everyone else with because he wrote Misquoting Jesus too [328]. Now all Hector has to do is disprove the criticisms of it by scholars like Wallace.) Avalos is such a poor, oppressed person that even movies like The Passion and The Prince of Egypt are done to "portray the Bible and its characters in the best light possible" and to "promote certain visions of Christian theology." [334] Hector....get over yourself.

Ch. 10 -- The conclusion, which simply sums up what came before, and in which Avalos amusingly contradicts himself openly on the same page [341] and conspicuously fails to notice: