Blogging the Bible

I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle today about David Plotz, a "not-very-observant Jew," who always tried to avoid the Bible but picked it up one day because he was bored at his cousins' bat mitzvah. He discovered, to his surprise, a graphic tale of woe, vengeance, violence, illicit sex. In his words, as quoted in the Chronicle, the Old Testament is "a bawdy, violent, sexy, jokey, sarcastic, Quentin Tarantino of a book."

In addition to his observations about what he reads, he is finding his faith deepened and, well, actually existing as a result of his reading. He has been asked to do the New Testament and the Qu'ran, but has declined, suggesting that somebody of those faith traditions should do that project.

His blog is at the following web address: http://www.slate.com/id/2150150/