Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvellous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
Author: David Plotz
Publication by: HarperCollins e-books
Publication Date: March 3rd 2009
Source: E-Book owned by Reviewer
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Audience: Anyone with an interest but not for those who are devoutly
and religiously lacking a sense of humour
Synopsis
Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz long assumed he knew what was in
the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, then at-tended a
Christian high school where he studied the Old and New Testaments. Many of the
highlights stuck with him--Adam and Eve, Cain versus Abel, Jacob versus Esau,
Jonah versus whale, forty days and nights, ten plagues and commandments, twelve
tribes and apostles, Red Sea walked under, Galilee walked on, bush into fire,
rock into water, water into wine. And, of course, he absorbed from all around
him other bits of the Bible--from stories he heard in churches and synagogues,
in movies and on television, from his parents and teachers. But it wasn't until
he picked up a Bible at a cousin's bat mitzvah--and became engrossed and
horrified by a lesser-known story in Genesis--that he couldn't put it down.
