I’ve not been following David Plotz’s Bible blogging, but he’s gotten all the way up to Job, and Job is the sort of literature that it’s almost impossible to write anything boring about. What do you with a book in which God comes across as arrogant, boastful, capricious, cruel, petty, self-contradictory, and possibly even polytheistic?

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.