Last summer, Slate deputy editor David Plotz, a Harvard-educated Reform Jew, found himself bored out of his mind at a cousin’s bat mitzvah. Rather than feigning interest, he reached into the back of a pew and started to read an English translation of the Torah.
He opened to the soap opera-like saga of Jacob’s sons seeking to avenge the rape of their sister Dinah—and found himself utterly engrossed. The experience became his impetus behind a Slate series called "Blogging the Bible." Started in September 2006, the blog records Plotz’s progress and comments as he reads through the entire Old Testament, a couple of chapters at a time. The subtitle of the series: "What happens when an ignoramus reads the Good Book?"
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