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"Good Book" is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the whole book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. The result is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature--the Bible.
They should replace the hotel bibles with this version, maybe put it in the john--it's great for a quick dip into old stories, ones you heard as a kid in bible school, but here with the real scoop, nothing dumbed down. Plotz is continually amazed that God could be so blood-thirsty, unjust, and down right nasty. Also, that he (Yep he's a guy) is a John Wayne style meat eater; you can cut the carbos in your sacrifices to him. You might start paying attention to his never-ending rules (food, sex, rituals) after you hear how many folks he does in for non-violent offences. ( )
David Plotz's take on his first complete reading of the Old Testament is both entertaining and thought provoking. Like myself most people probably have not read the Bible in this way and as Plotz points out we all should, to get our own impression of what guides so much in the world to this day.
From hilarity to disgust all emotions are laid out in his reading and looking at it both critically and whimsically we come face to face with what boils down to some amazing absurdities of life as we experience it. Each of us will make a choice as to how much of what is here will guide or influence our own lives. For the most part what I read in this book validates my own skepticism. Yet as much as Plotz pokes fun and holes into the work he makes one telling conclusion on his read at the end. He states that as much as he dismisses in the writings he does experience a sense of his own heritage handed down over the ages as his forefathers reading the same passages. And there you have the power of religion and its grip. ( )
Alternately amusing, insightful, and frustrating, this book by David Plotz, editor of Slate emagazine recounts his impressions as he read through the Bible for the first time, as an adult. Plotz, a non-observant Jew, read just the Old Testment, but had plenty of comments good and bad on God and the characters of the Bible. I feel many of his questions and complaints about God and the Bible could be answered by a little research on his part. ( )
Very interesting! Mr. Plotz has read the Old Testament and shares with us his perceptions of it. At times funny and irreverant, at times humble and awestruck, this is a good way to familiarize yourself with the Old Testament. ( )
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For my parents, the best argument in the world for the Fifth Commandment
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Introduction In the Beginning I've always been a proud Jew, but never a very observant one. I believe in God, but only in a please-please-desperation-prayer kind of way. I say the Lord's name only to take it in vain. I don't have any other gods before Him, but mostly because I haven't looked for any. I rarely remember the Sabbath day, and never keep it holy. I go to the synagogue about as often—and with about as much pleasure—as I go to the DMV.
One The Book of Genesis
God's First Try In which God created Earth and pretty much everything else, including Adam and Eve; Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden; Cain kills Abel; God floods the sinful Earth; Noah survives; God chooses Abram, renames him Abraham, and promises him the Holy Land; God incinerates the sin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; Abraham almost sacrifices his son Isaac; Isaac's son Jacob tricks his older twin brother, Esau, out of their father's blessing; Jacob wrestles an angel, is renamed Israel, and has twelves sons; the older sons sell Joseph into slavery; Joseph becomes prime minister of Egypt, saves his brothers during a famine, and reconciles with them; all the Israelites settle in Egypt and fail to live happily ever after.
Chapter I You'd think God would know exactly what He's doing at the Creation. But He doesn't. He's a tinkerer. He tries something out: What happens if I move all the water around so there's room for dry land?" He checks it out. Yes, "this was good." Then He moves on to His next experiment: How about plants? I'll try plants.
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The Bible has brought me no closer to God, if God means either belief in a deity acting in the world, or an experience of the transcendent. But perhaps I'm closer to God in the sense that the Bible has put me on high alert. As I read the book, I realized that the Bible's greatest heroes are not those who are most faithful, but those who are most contentious and doubtful: Moses negotiating with God at the burning bush, Gideon demanding divine proof before going to war, Job questioning God's own justice, Abraham demanding that God be merciful to the innocent of Sodom. They challenge God for his capriciousness, and demand justice, order, and morality, even when God refuses to provide any of these. Reading the Bible has given me a chance to start an argument with God about the most improtant questions there are, an argument that can last a lifetime.
"Good Book" is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the whole book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. The result is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature--the Bible.
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