The five scrolls, volume 6 of Bob's Bible now available

Volume 6 of the new series The Bible for the Music, also known as Bob's Bible, is now available. You can order it here.

Where to begin reading the Bible? In volume 6 of course. This book is less than 100 pages packed with wisdom, aka shrewdness. You can read it in an afternoon, but it will last in you with its dramatic and tragic centre 'for good', as they carelessly say, meaning for ever.

Here are some snippets to whet your appetite.

The first scroll is the Song of Songs. Nowhere better to begin than with this key to Torah.

Song 2:15 catch the foxes

The second of the scrolls is the book of Ruth - a very readable story also about love.

The third scroll is the Lamentations of Jeremiah, 5 chapters, 4 of which are alphabetic acrostics with the sequence of letters deliberately not quite perfect.

Lamentations 2:17

The fourth scroll is Qohelet, the preacher, or Ecclesiastes.

Qohelet 5:17

And the fifth scroll is the book of Esther, the story of the origin of the feast of Purim. This a book about parties, not all of them sweet or happy.