A discussion about the Bible

Well, I finally had that discussion with someone else about the Bible. Of course, I have been bringing it up to my roommate, especially when he suggests I clean up the place a little - the story about Mary, Martha, Jesus, and the one needful thing truly is a wondrous tale - but I actually sat down and had a conversation with someone. This someone also happened to be my mother.
I decided that I wanted to have a discussion with someone that I could actually learn something from, and I knew that my mother is very knowledgeable of the bible. Little did I know, she was actually very knowledgeable, and I definitely got taught a few things.
The first thing I learned was that for three years after she had my oldest sibling, she was a stay-at-home mom. Quite the turn around from today's Mom, for sure. But while she stayed at home, she decided to study the Bible. And that's it. She studied the Bible everyday (about)for three years. She had a Bible completely covered with little annotations in the margins. Once she ran out of margin space, she wrote everything down in notebooks. She had more notebooks on the Bible than I do for my 120 credits' worth of classes. It was crazy! And then she brought out a book entitled An Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong, published 1894. A very old, very large book. It also had a Greek and Hebrew dictionary in it, which my mother exploited to the utmost. Every verb, noun, and phrase was looked up and translated back into Hebrew and Greek, then retranslated back into English to see how many different interpretations there were. And there were a lot. She told me that her favorite book, Daniel, was very different in Hebrew than it was in English. This intrigued me, so I asked if I could borrow her book. It is now currently sitting in my room. I'm somewhat afraid to touch the thing; it looks like it'll explode into a cloud of dust at any moment. But I'm sure I'll get over the fear soon and actually started really reading the Bible, as a multilingual facet of history.