The Seven Bible Books I Would Take With Me to a Desert Island
A variation on an old prompt
In a piece yesterday about some excellent Springsteen songs that are necessary alternatives to the hits you already know, I wrote that the original prompt from Alex Markham interrupted my pondering of which seven books of the Bible I would take with me to a desert island if I couldn’t take the whole thing. I was only semi-joking about that; I was, in fact, wondering whether I would keep Isaiah or Exodus, but had no intention of turning the random thought into an article.
Be careful what you let get lodged in your brain, friends, for as soon as I was finished with the Springsteen story the question of Bible books and desert islands returned with a vengeance. It did not help that in answer to a prompt last year about what books I would take with me to a desert island the Bible was the first one I listed. Reading back over that piece about books, my choices would be the same today as they were then, but when it came to the Bible, one of the myriad voices in my head reminded me of something:
“The Bible isn’t one book; it’s a collection of books. What seven books from the Bible would you take to that desert island if you had to choose?”
Normally, when I start thinking about outrageous questions it’s because I have screwed…
