Blogging the bible

Here’s a fun lay commentary on the Hebrew bible, by a columnist at Slate.com. From his introduction to the Song of Songs, for instance:

The Bible is like my grandmother's basement, which is a magnificent hodgepodge of everything from jam jars to 83-year-old report cards to failed perpetual motion machines. The Bible, too, has everything under the sun. A creation story? Check. Law books? Yup. Genealogical tables, prophecies, history books, ritual instructions, self-help manuals—they are all in there. And now, right after the grimness of Job—we get … erotica!