The Problem with Studying the Bible Academically

I am looking into an author named Michael Legaspi, who wrote a book titled The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. I have only read reviews currently, but I am going to purchase his book to read it in its entirety. His premise is that the rise of the scholarly approach in understanding the Bible carries with it the possibility of that scholarly approach being the endgame. Worded differently, we could say that the different elements of this scholarly approach, i.e., Greek/Hebrew, history, context, grammar, rhetoric, theology, are not enough. None of it is bad. All is necessary, I believe, when we apply ourselves to studying any Bible passage. However, you are not done with that Bible passage when all you have done is complete those stages. Here is an important statement that I believe captures the essence of what I’m trying to say: We want to study the Bible carefully without reducing the Bible to an object of study. As necessary as those academic disciplines are, we must not allow them to become the purpose of our study of the Scripture.