My Favorite Book in the Bible by Harold Bloom | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books:
William Tyndale translated Jonah, providing the King James Bible with its base text but not the humor that shines through its revisions. In a rather negative Prologue to his version (a powerful piece of narrative) Tyndale nastily compared the Jews who rejected Jesus to the people of Nineveh who believed Jonah and repented. The comparison is lame but reminds me that Tyndale, a great writer, also was a bigot.
Via Jaime on Reader. This part made me snort. Just that kind of weekend.
