Thru the Bible...2006 style

Perhaps you've heard the radio spot, "Thru the Bible" sometime in your life. If not, it's pretty self-explanatory. But that's not the point.

David Plotz is Slate.com's deputy editor and is a self-admitted, "proud" but never a "terribly observant" Jew. After picking up the Torah during a extended length ceremony, he began to read a story in Genesis 34 that he hadn't known of before. Long story short, he's decided to read through the Bible this year and blog about it along the way. Keep in mind that his perspective isn't "Christian" but it'll help you see how people digest the Bible. At the very least, you might laugh out loud You can read more about it here. Or, get the whole scoop here.