atoms into suns

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Bibles-Oil.html

Seems someone has decided that

a passage from Genesis that quotes Jacob telling Joseph that God will give him "blessings of the deep that couches beneath"

refers to oil.

Call me crazy -- or heretical, or lacking in faith -- but I suspect God doesn't care much about oil.

My question is, if they don't find oil in Israel, will these people finally give up their overreaching literal interpretation of the Bible?

The link is to an NY Times article, which requires registration or a trip to bugmenot.