Getting back to the History (*cough*) channel show, The Bible, apparently it is coming out in book form:

‘The Bible’ the Novel About a Program About the Bible?

So while browsing through the New Releases section at Barnes and Noble yesterday, I came across this rather fascinating book:

[ amazon.com ]

In case you were wondering, yes, this is a novel based upon the History Channel special, ‘The Bible’–which happens to be a dramatization of….the bible. So this is a watered-down book from a watered down television series about a very nuanced and multifaceted book (actually a large collection of books). But the title and the function of this book is both condescending and ignorant for various reasons…

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So it is quite sad–pathetic even–that the version that people should be reading (that is, the actual bible) is selling less copies currently than the craptastic watered-down book based upon a rather conservative (yet liberally rendered) televised dramatization of the bible.

Wow, we can now get “The Bible” in book form!