Reading every word of the Bible
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David Plotz, editor of the online magazine Slate, read every word of the Old Testament.
He chronicles the experience in "Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible."
Plotz is an award-winning journalist and the head editor of Slate, the world's largest online magazine. He been writing for Slate since the popular site launched in 1996. He's also a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post.
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