Move over Eugene Peterson. Joe Walker has started to paraphrase the Bible into limerick form, beginning in the beginning.
1 The God who created the world,
2 on this planet humanity hurled,
3 with a snake in the grass,
4 to tempt family en masse,
5 Adam’s generations unfurled.
I’ve been known to write a limerick or two, even something with a Biblical bent,
Take a quick look at what riches bring.
They fly off like a bird on the wing.
Do not flex, strain and twitch,
At some scheme to get rich,
‘Cause you know, wise restraint is the thing. Proverbs 23:4,5
but nothing that matches Joe’s synopsis of Genesis. Read it all at Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot » And God said, Let there be Limericks (Genesis as a Limerick).
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