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The book, tentatively called Fighting for the Bible, will be published by the William Morrow and Avon publishing companies. Gomes told the Observer that the topics will include the Bible and "women, race, anti-Semitism and the environment, and how these topics are interpreted and misinterpreted."
Gomes said to the Observer that he decided to undertake writing the book because he believes the Bible has become "a lost or a closed book to the majority of secular America."
Take David Cross, for example, the 29-year-old comic from Los Angeles whose version of Ecclesiastes is unfamiliar to most readers of the Bible. Cross's blasphemy and his predilection for overly evocative images ("A great big steaming platter of baby kittens" springs to mind) don't seem suitable...
Tucker cranks up the CD player and blasts out his theme song, Simon and Garfunkel's Keep the Customer Satisfied. With fingers tapping on the steering wheel, he belts out the lyrics ("I get slandered/ Libeled/ I hear words I never heard in the Bible"). Then he unsnaps the gun...
For some, there is another avenue to the way, the truth and the life. The African Heritage Study Bible (Winston-Derek Publishers; $39.95) keeps to the King James Version and adds scholarly chapters on such topics as ancient Black Christians and "African Edenic Women and the Scriptures." It also features...