"Don't Know Much About the Bible"

Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need To Know About the Good Book but Never Learned (Kenneth C. Davis) [Second Look!]

This is a great starting place for beginning bible history. Although it's a hefty book, over 500 pages, Davis keeps it moving right along and avoids managing to get bogged down in many of the drier parts of the Bible (just like R. Crumb!). There's only two issues to be aware of, neither of which bothered me that much: The first is that this is really a starting place - having listened to a bunch of The Human Bible, a good amount of this material was familiar to me, which wasn't really a problem as I just skipped through it. Truly, if you don't know much about the Bible, start here, but if you're already well versed, you can probably skip it. (Also, be prepared for Davis' stream of bad jokes and pop culture references, most of which are rather clunkily dated [Baywatch] or just plain bad [The First Wives Club, seriously].)

Grade: A-