{"id":3130,"date":"2011-09-08T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/review-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:09:41","slug":"review-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/08\/review-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: The Final Testament Of The Holy Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The East Hampton Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Long Island Books: The Rising<\/h1>\n

By Robert Stuart<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

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In a Bible class I taught, a woman who was annoyed with an image of a vengeful God said, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t we just write a new Bible?\u201d James Frey has written, not a new Bible, but a testament to the end times with the appearance of the Messiah, a man born of Orthodox Jewish parents in Brooklyn. His name is variously Ben Zion Avrohom, Ben Jones, or Ben. ___ \u201cThe Final Testament of the Holy Bible\u201d<\/em> James Frey Gagosian Gallery, $50<\/strong><\/span> ___ The story is in the present time, written from the perspectives and in the voices of men and women who in the immediate past have known Ben. It is a compelling story and well written, holding plot, characters, and religious theme together. I hasten to add that the characters would not consider their insight, newly gained after contact with Ben, to be religious, conventionally considered. Quite the opposite, the point of view is decidedly against religion, and indeed against government. It is not, however, anarchist. [ click to continue reading at The East Hampton Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The East Hampton Star Long Island Books: The Rising By Robert Stuart In a Bible class I taught, a woman who was annoyed with an image of a vengeful God said, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t we just write a new Bible?\u201d James Frey has written, not a new Bible, but a testament to the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}