The Old Testament

[nwhyte]

My two annual reading projects this year have been War and Peace, which conveniently has 366 chapters, and the Bible, for which I generated a reading scheme of my own, based on reading roughly the same amount of it each day (though giving short books a day of their own).

This morning I finished the Old Testament (full Catholic version, thus

Comments

[inuitmonster]

I have this somewhat uncharitable sense of the Old Testament as being all about smiting, unclean bodily discharges, and bizarre events reported in a deadpan tone where it is unclear whether you are meant to approve or disapprove of what is being described (e.g. the Levite and the Concubine and so on).