LOL! Now how about to publish a whole new commentary to the Bible? I bet it would be a best-seller and you'd have your place in Hell for sure! ;-D

That would worry me if I believed there was a hell. I don't. Except maybe Oklahoma. That might actually be hell.

The reading you heard at the Bar Mitzvah is actually about the prophet Elisha, not Elijah.

And taking it out of context, there's one bit from that Bible story that struck me this morning (at a different Bar Mitzvah) as the sort of behavior that could get you into a lot of trouble if you tried it these days:

Elisha comes into the house, and the young boy, the child of the Shunamite woman, is laid out upon his bed:

II Kings, 4:33-34:

He {Elisha] went in therefore, and shut the door upon them both...

And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child....

But along those lines, there's R. Crumb's newly published illustrated version of Genesis...

Thanks Rigel! I fixed my spelling. So not only was Elisha an adulterer, he was a child molester as well? Quite an example for us to follow.

I'm not saying Elisha was a child molester. Just that the scene set up by the book of Second Kings strikes me as pretty kinky.

And regarding R. Crumb: see http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kolazx7M6t1qzz036o1_400.jpg

The cover says: "The first book of the Bible graphically depicted! Nothing left out!" and "Adult supervision recommended for minors".

This is not your family Bible, but then again, even your family Bible has bits in it that your attention wasn't called to when you were growing up. Remember the rape of Dina and subsequent revenge by her brothers?