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Bible buying

So, I want to buy a Bible. There are many and various reasons for this, that I'll maybe go into another time- anyway, rest assured that I'm still the heathen you all know and love. No theism happening any time soon.

Anyway. So I went to see if I could get the cool little box-set book-by-book version off Amazon, because I can't find it in the shops anywhere, and I'm embarassed to ask for it (go figure). And, well. I'm enormously amused by what they've got in the "perfect partner" program with it.

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I also like the two reviews they have just below it:

(1 star - 2 of 10 found the following review helpful)
Biblical nonsense, 6 August, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from England If a huge lie makes you feel better about yourself, then this is the book for you. Usually such history books are backed up with masses of evidence to prove its hypothesis. This book, however, seems to have no evidence to back up it's highly dubious story. In fact, one might even deem it a story book.

(5 stars - 13 of 27 found the following review helpful)
This book will literally save your life., 30 November, 2000
Reviewer: (n.m.thomas@salford.ac.uk) from England This is the book of life. It will cure you from sickness, both physical and mental. It will comfort you in times of trouble. Its will de-stress you. It will give you help you sort out your finances. This book is essential for life.

:bangs head: I went and wrote a review of it. Argh.

I'm so tempted to use the "I am the author and I want to comment on my book" link. Which would be still funnier (and yet more blasphemous) with the Koran.

how would it be more blasphemous? anyway, i dare you.

Technically? Because the Koran is, word-for-word, the revealed word of God, and the Bible isn't quite that- for example, it can be translated, wheras the Koran can't, because it would then cease to be the Koran. The Bible is sort of the interpreted word of God. (With the proviso that this is my heathen unbeliever take on it.)

But, actually, if I can think of a thing worth putting there, I really will...

Unless you're a very observant Jew, in which case the Bible (by which I mean our Bible, not this newfangled Jesus stuff) is the literal word of God. No translation hang-ups though.

I would love to see someone submit author's comments. Really. What a great idea.

Thanks. More information is good information. And, heh.

Please, please do.

Tried that. They asked me for my publisher's address. Oh, Me.

It will give you help you sort out your finances.

Doesn't do much for your grammar, though.

". . . many of the essays in this volume show an almost obsessive desire to pin everything on one simple cause. The essay on Job is a case in point. It seems clear from the material presented that divine intervention was an important factor in the social and economic dislocations suffered by this hapless agriculturalist. But it is the reviewer's painful duty to report that the authors seem to have completely ignored other salient factors. One looks in vain for evidence that the recent works on soil depletion in ancient Palestine have so much as been consulted. Similarly, there is no mention of any rainfall statistics or studies of the prevalence of skin diseases in the Middle East. The need to ferret out this kind of relevant data should have been obvious."

More here (http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/humor/bible.html).

That is great. Thanks for the link.

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