In case you’re wondering where I’ve been (all ten of you who read this), two weeks ago I broke my leg and had surgery, and was in the hospital for 6 days. Since coming home I’ve had a lot of opportunity to read our next work, the Book of Isaiah. I’ve read it three times, [...]
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Exodus: God’s Purchasing Order
Posted in Christian Literature, Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Exodus, Hebrew Literature, Moses, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Pentateuch, The Torah on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part of the reason I had such trouble with Exodus is evident once you get to chapter 25. Prior to that, it is this enormous human drama: freedom from slavery, the wrath of God, the doubt and determination of his chosen Prophet, and the birth of a nation that endures to the present day. Then [...]
Exodus: Why Moses?
Posted in Christian Literature, Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Exodus, Hebrew Literature, Moses, Prophets and Prophecy, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Pentateuch, The Torah, Uncategorized on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I realize that the tools I am equipped with for evaluating a text are woefully lacking. The things they taught me about character analysis in AP English and in my screenwriting courses during college assume certain things about why people tell stories and what an author is “trying to say” through a character that don’t [...]
Exodus: On Holiness
Posted in Christian Literature, Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Exodus, Hebrew Literature, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Mediterranean World, The Middle East, The Pentateuch, The Torah on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, hi. It’s been what, five months? Reading continues apace, although the blogging is way, way, way behind. This is partly for the usual reasons: work, family, long-distance running, laziness. It’s also because I’ve now embarked on the part of the list that contains holy scriptures, stories taken as dictated by the divine in at [...]
Thoughts On Old Testament God
Posted in Christian Literature, Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Genesis, Hebrew Literature, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Torah on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time I was a public school teacher. When you are a public school teacher, you are generally also what’s known as a “mandatory reporter”. This means that if you suspect child abuse, you are legally obliged to report any evidence to the appropriate authorities. During this close re-reading of the Old Testament, [...]
Creation Myth Smackdown: Hesiod Vs. Genesis
Posted in Ancient Greece, Christian Literature, Documents of All Time, Hebrew Literature, Hesiod, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Pentateuch, The Torah, Theogony on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Creation myths are like opinions: everybody’s got one. Every culture, anyway. I’ve been reading two of them in Hesiod’s Theogony and Genesis, which is the first book of both the Christian and Jewish bibles. I’m thinking of starting a creation myths matrix for the books covered in this blog, since I know there are a [...]
Christmas Special: The Nativity in Luke’s Gospel
Posted in Christian Literature, The Bible, The Canonical Gospels, The Middle East on December 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The winter solstice is upon us, and Christmas is hard on its heels. So I’m skipping ahead in the list a bit to look at the first chapters of the Gospel according to St. Luke. If you live in an English-speaking country and have watched any television at Christmas since 1965, you are most likely [...]
Planned Diversion from the List: The Gospel of Luke
Posted in Additional Readings, Christian Literature, The Bible, The Canonical Gospels on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s on my list for later in the project, but seeing as how we’re coming up to Saturnalia the feast of Sol Invictus Christmas, I’m planning to read the nativity story, as covered in the Gospel of Luke, later this month. Meanwhile, here is one of the more touching renderings of a passage from that [...]
