The virtue of idleness

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> "From the Bible on, moralists and nags have promoted the benefits of hard
> work and early rising. They are mistaken, argues Tom Hodgkinson. 

The Bible? Does the Bible promote the benefits of hard work and early
rising? So what happened to Cain? Sounds like Ben Franklin to me.
Doesn't this Puritan work ethic come after the Reformation? Isn't it
absent from Jewish and Catholic Theology?