I am reading a book from ABC called Scandals of the Bible by Sigve Tonstad.

He is answering the puzzle of why God stands back in the face of atrocities that happen, using bible examples; rape, murder, suffering.

He looks at Moses' firing (abruptly terminated as the leader) from what his action of hitting the rock did to God's image in the eyes of Israel and other insights that I had completely missed

It reads fast and the writer is very talented. He also wrote a set of children's books.