Slate Magazine - Blogging the Bible

What I learned from reading the entire Bible.

David Plotz — Tue, 3 Mar 2009 06:58:04 EST

In 2006 and 2007, David Plotz blogged the Bible for Slate, starting with "In the beginning …" and reading right through to the end. This week, Plotz publishes Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, a book sparked by the Slate project. You can buy Good Book here. The following is adapted from the book.

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The complete Blogging the Bible.

David Plotz — Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:46:28 EST

I began a year ago with "In the beginning …" and I'm finally done.

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Meet the Bible's Delta Force.

David Plotz — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:35:46 EST

The Book of 1 Chronicles I'm feeling pretty bummed reading First and Second Chronicles, because they are the last books of the Hebrew Bible, and thus mark the end of Blogging the Bible—at least for now. I wish my Bible finished with more spark—with a book like Jonah or Esther or Job. Instead, I'm stuck with the tedium of Chronicles. Chronicles are an odd pair of books, more an appendix to the rest of the Bible than their own thing. The Christian Bible groups Chronicles with the other historical books in the middle of the Old Testament. But Jews shove Chronicles into the trunk, at the very end of our Bible. The Jewish way makes more sense, I suspect. That's because Chronicles is largely a rehash of other books, mostly Samuel and Kings, but told more quickly and with less flair. It doesn't rate a place of honor.

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The complete Blogging the Bible, so far.

David Plotz — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:31:53 EST

So far.

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Meet the Bible's only Arab. Guess what he and the Jews think of each other.

David Plotz — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:31:03 EST

Meet the Bible's only Arab. Guess what he and the Jews think of each other.

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