I have a feeling that it started out a high stakes novel and then turned into a tedious little love story without much depth.

Well some of the good movies from December are still hanging on in theaters.

And they all talk with their hands.

Well all my friends named after her pronounce it Yael. And it sounds less weird than Jael.

"Maybe if he was going on about the Bible in a 2 Broke Girls review, I could see your point, but…" - Tempting. Very tempting. 

Israelis name their kids Nimrod. And then their kids move to America and wonder why people are laughing at them.

The Solomon/Baby story interpretation where it's a political allegory - the only one that makes any sense.

There's one interpretation that says that they were drunk and another one that says that they were offering themselves up as sacrifices. So either don't drink or don't be too religious.

Yeah, that's they say about every book in the Bible.

Later on - could we get one who is a little less crazy?

I hear he's a bit of a dick, but he also writes term papers for cheap. 

Wow! I feel like I have fans. There are so many overrated artists and writers that I've hated since that.

I didn't appreciate the Bible as a literary text until college when Robert Alter was in vogue. I also ended up reading God Knows by Joseph Heller and then Samuel where the Philistines get Hemorrhoids. The book is so funny at the beginning and so sad toward the end.

All history is full of holes but the major myths are the ones that drive history more than the pure historical accounts. Where would the Greeks be without Herodotus.

Yael is also in the Catholic Bible. And the Jewish Bible and the Protestant Bible.

Samson is the Hercules of the Bible.

Oh wow. Thanks. I've also been meaning to find R. Aaron Lichtenstein's take on it (he wrote his PhD thesis on Paradise Lost and he's a big Modern ORthodox rabbi in Israel - so there's really no reason for anyone non-Jewish to care)

If the history channel was more inclined for history, it might be better served doing a show about Biblical archaeology in the same way that PBS does shows about Troy and what it was.

The Bible is important historically - whether or not it is literally true is besides the point.

Also that story is all about rape. Like in Kill Bill, he wants to penetrate her. She penetrates him instead.