The Bible Has All The Elements of a Bestseller

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Published March 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

David Plotz is a proud but not observant Jew, who decided to seriously read the Old Testament from cover to cover. He blogged about his experience at Slate.com and has just published a book called Go

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David Plotz thinks of himself as a "proud but non-observant Jew" who actually did something few of us have ever done. Not only did he read the Bible, he actually thought about what he read. And then he posted a really wonderful series on Slate.com called "Blogging the Bible."

Now he's put it all between hard covers in a book titled Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible

Guest:

David Plotz is an editor at Slate and the author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.