70 Year Magazine Archive

Question and Answer

by Richard Lederer

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IT is truly astonishing what happens to Bible stories when they are retold by young scholars around the world.

In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath off. Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. Noahโ€™s wife was called Joan of Ark. Noah built an ark, which the animals came on to in pears. Lotโ€™s wife was a pillar of salt by day, but a ball of fire by night.

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