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The Bible. It's the foundation for much of Western morality and the cornerstone of world literature. But let's be honest: a little punching up couldn't hurt. In *Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!*, Jonathan Goldstein reimagines and recasts the Bible's greatest heroes and answers such age-old questions as: Wouldn't a person get bored living in a whale? How did Joseph explain Mary's pregnancy to the guys at work? And what was Cain's problem anyway? You are invited to revisit the time-honored tales you barely understood as a child and discover a bible populated by angry loners, hypochondriacs, and reluctant prophets who fear for their sanity. Golstein wittily reinvents the Old Testament tales for the modern, neurotic world as a series of off-kilter vaudeville routines and contemporary parables. And in doing so, he reveals the timelessness and poignancy of these most human of stories.