Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible

Good Book is a whip—smart, laugh—out—loud tour through a book most people have never read: the Bible.

Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz had always assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, and as a teenager while attending a Christian high school. But it wasn’t until he picked up a Bible at a cousin’s bat mitzvah and became engrossed and horrified by a lesser—known story in Genesis that he couldn’t put it down. Good Book is the irrever...