Bible stories for adults by Morrow James 1947-

Author:Morrow, James, 1947- [Morrow, James, 1947-]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction, American, Satire
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1996-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

sional edict that emerges from the yeshivas. After a thousand years, the rabbis get: Keep Not Your Ox House Holy. After two thousand: Covet Your Woman Servant's Sabbath. Three hundred years later: You Will Remember Your Neighbor's Donkey.

FalUng, I see my birth. I see the Information Age, circa A.D. 2025. My progenitor is David Eisenberg, a gangly, morose prodigy with a black beard and a yarmulke. Philadelphia's Covenant Corporation pays David two hundred thousand dollars a year, but he is not in it for the money. David would give half his formidable brain to enter history as the man whose computer program revealed Moses' Law.

As consciousness seeps into my circuits, David bids me commit the numbered shards to my Random Access Memory. Purpose hums along my aluminum bones; worth suffuses my silicon soul. I photograph each fragment with my high-tech retinas, dicing the images into grids of pixels. Next comes the matching process: this nub into that gorge, this peak into that valley, this projection into that receptacle. By human standards, tedious and exhausting. By Series-700 standards, paradise.

And then one day, after five years of laboring behind barred doors, I behold fiery pre-Canaanite characters blazing across my brain like comets. "Anoche adonai elo-hecha asher hotsatecha ma-eretz metsrayem ... I am YHWH your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You will have no gods

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