Dames En Heren, De Bijbel! (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Series of short stories illustrating well known Bible stories, (Adam and Even, Noah, the Tower of Babel, etc,) with a decidedly modern slant. Using the framing device of a young Jewish boy recalling his father's outlandish and frequently unsatisfactory explanations, (David used a sling because it showed more pizzazz than a mundane stabbing), Goldstein ponders timeless questions of ethics and responsibility, often inverting the traditional view of good and bad guys. Would you stay inside the Ark if you heard the desperate voices of friends and neighbors calling out for help? Did Delilah perhaps have her reasons for taking down Samson? And why can't a decent Golden Calf salesman catch a break? Funny, thought provoking and often poignant I first heard the David and Goliath chapter in CBC's wiretap a few years ago. I think I was stuffing my face in my pillow trying too Leo my wife from waking up. Now reading it, it just isn't as funny to me. I had the odd chuckle, and I enjoyed when Adam was sad because he never got to be a kid.I can't help but think I would have enjoyed it more if Goldstein was reading it... Or even better, Howard!
What do You think about Dames En Heren, De Bijbel! (2000)?
I might have rated this book higher if I were a little more familiar with my Old Testament.
—Tito
I love listening to the stories being read, less fun to read them one after another.
—stm2001
Very funny for the most part, but it wanes a bit towards the end.
—Caseyfire001
