is worth having on my 'to read' list. I was particularly taken by this observation from the secular Jew who wrote the book reflecting on his year of discovery of the Hebrew Bible for himself. "book about all the various ways religious people pick and choose, the most famous being many Christians' fixation on the six biblical statements about homosexual relations in comparison to what Jacobs claims are seven thousand—seven thousand!—biblical comments on how to treat the poor. All religious people do this sifting, he finds; they simply have to. The Bible, Jacobs comes to understand, is a jumble of mysteries: How can these ethically advanced rules and these bizarre decrees be found in the same books? And not just the same book. Sometimes the same page. The prohibition for mixing wool and linen comes right after the command to love your neighbor. It's not like the Bible has a section called 'And now for some Crazy Laws.' They're all jumbled up like a chopped salad."It Is Written - Books & Culture:
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