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The Uncensored Bible: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book |
Author: John Kaltner
Published: 2008-06-01 |
List price: $19.95
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Customer comments on this selection.
 The "Good Book" Can be FUN!
This little book has given me more chuckles than I bargained for. It provoked gales of laughter from a rather straight laced, born again, son in law. He ordered his copy the next day. Written by a team of highly respected, well educated Biblical scholars, it explores the Testaments in a definitely unique fashion. From what Adam's Rib actually was, to recommendations on brewing and drinking beer, no chapter nor verse is immune. No pressure to believe nor disbelieve! Just a whole lot of well thought out and researched possibilities. Read it and make up your own mind! But be prepared to laugh your fool head off while so doing.
 Turning the Bible into Toilet Humor
I admit, I couldn't resist the title of this book and thought that it might take a fascinating foray into some of the more mischievous closets of the Bible - and perhaps even make obscure passages worthy of further examination. Of course, adding a little humor might also take the edge off some of the more risqué parts of the Good Book as well as expose (no pun intended) some additional meaning that would otherwise be overlooked.
While the Uncensored Bible does examine quite a few intriguing and puzzling matters, the extreme overabundance of infantile and patently sophomoric humor overwhelms anything the authors might have hoped to accomplish - I only finished the book because it was not only a quick (but tedious) read but also because I would look up the passages referenced and found that the authors, John Kaltner and Steven McKenzie ("Bible professors"), did seem to have a decent understanding of Biblical scholarship. Unfortunately, it appears as if the final writer, Joel Kilpatrick (a "journalist"), was employed to take the prose and add a bit of humor to it. That was, without question, a disastrous decision and resulted in turning a potentially fascinating book into 224 pages of non-stop locker-room banter befitting immature young men who have just gone through puberty and are still held captive by nearly-lethal doses of youthful hormonal imbalance - that well-known and documented male condition which causes acute cerebral failure whereby the brain is temporarily relocated to the nether regions of primal lust (located far south of the brain's normal placement).
It's really a shame that the Uncensored Bible failed so miserably in accomplishing anything the authors might have hoped for; had it done so, it would have been a truly interesting book. Instead, the book is a complete failure due to the inanely incessant humor that clutters nearly every single page (make that nearly every paragraph). The only reason I gave this book more than one star is due to the fact that it is possible to look up each Biblical passage that the authors refer to. Perhaps someday, someone will write a good book on the Good Book's most taboo topics. Oh well.
 The "Good" Book
The Uncensored Bible is an intriguing and scholarly text that explores the myriad of possible interpretations of some Bible stories. It is written in an engaging and readable style, and the authors aptly realize that they are writing for a wide audience, not a bunch of scholars at a conference. Kudos to them for acknowledging that fact. This is a serious work, and I was greatly impressed by the rigorous standards that the authors gave to each "questionable' theory that they examined in the text. They are not trying to shock people, but rather to investigate the aspects of the Bible that are unseemly, and to come up with reasonable conclusions that are based on reliable research, and the Bible itself. Again, it is refreshing to read a work by a scholar that seems to be absent of the scholar`s personal biases and beliefs.
The main flaw with this text is the hideous amount of bad jokes. They are so many, and so lame, that they begin to detract from the text. Had the amount of bad jokes, puns, riffs, etc been reduced I would have given this text 4 stars.
If you know your Bible, and are open to thinking critically about it, then this is a quick and engaging read and worth your time.
 Uncensored Bible revealed
Light reading, funny and illustrative. It was a good bargain and I definitively recommend this book if you are into humane interpretations of the bible. Though is not that daring as I would expected, it is very scholar without being boring.
Funny and interesting
Don't give this book to your fundamentalist friends, but do tell everybody else about it. It is education, interesting, and amusing.
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