Michael Reads the Bible

The end of Exodus feels a little like a reprise. The business with the golden calf having been worked out, and Moses having secured a second...

The thing you want more than anything else from the Bible might well be to get a read on the nature of God. Who is God? What is God like? Bu...

I've been surprised over the course of this project by how un-boring the Bible has been. Which is not to say it is the gripping potboile...

Michael Reads the Bible was very excited this week by the first comment posted to the blog by someone not personally known by michael5000. ...

In previous installments of this blog, I have complained that the Bible, so often touted as a sort of guidebook or handbook to good living, ...

Three months to the day after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arive at Mount Sinai. They make camp near the base of the mountain, while Moses ...

Leaving Egypt So the Pharaoh finally gives up. "Leave my people, you and the Israelites !" he shouts. "Go, worship the Lord a...

Note: I had better clarify that the title of this post is a lame play on the name of the great early 90s Lawrence, Kansas band Plague of Da...

When we last saw the Israelites, at the end of Genesis, I was a little confused by how well they seemed to be doing. With Joseph basically r...