Good Book [text (large print)] : the bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, marvelous, and inspiring things I learned when I read every single word of the Bible / David Plotz.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperLuxe, c2009.Edition: 1st HarperLuxe edDescription: ix, 485 p. (large print) ; 23 cmISBN: - 0061719951 (pbk. : lg. print) :
- 9780061719950 (pbk. : lg. print) :
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Hilarious. . . . It's Cliff Notes for Scripture--screenplay by Plotz, story by God. . . . In the end, though, the book is made by the spirit of the writer." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Like the Bible itself, Good Book contains multitudes--it is by turns thought-provoking, funny, enlightening and moving." -- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically
"Plotz is a genius writer." -- Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World
A whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through the most important book in the world, a book most people have never read: the Bible.
Genesis: God's first try -- Exodus: Let my complaining, whining, no-goodnik people go! -- Leviticus: Lovers and lepers -- Numbers: the source of all Jewish comedy -- Deuteronomy: The Bible's 5th Beatle -- Joshua: Why so many Bible hookers? -- Judges: The meathead and the left-handed assassin -- 1 Samuel: The Bible's Bill Clinton -- 2 Samuel: God's favorite king -- 1 Kings: Kings of pain -- 2 Kings: The end of Israel -- Digging the Bible -- Isaiah: The Jesus preview -- Jeremiah: The prophet and the lustful she-camel -- Ezekiel: God's whole-grain hippie prophet -- The minor prophets: all those books you've never heard of, plus Jonah and the whale -- Psalms: 150 short poems about God -- Proverbs: Chicken soup for the Hebrew soul -- Job: God's bad bet -- The song of songs: Hot and holy -- Ruth: my favorite Bible story -- Lamentations & Ecclesiastes: Bible books for rock stars -- Esther: The first Miss Universe pageant -- Daniel: Nice pussycat! -- Ezra and Nehemiah: Coming home -- 1 & 2 Chronicles: Return of the kings -- Should you read the Bible? -- Useful (and not so useful) Bible lists.