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 |
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