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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Isaiah: Rough Travels
Posted in Additional Readings, Christian Literature, Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Isaiah, Latter-Day Saints, Meta Reading, Prophets and Prophecy, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Middle East, The Torah, Under The Banner of Heaven, Western Bias, tagged book clubs, book of isaiah, books of all time, great books, online great books clubs, reading isaiah, reading the bible on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Exodus: Any excuse…
Posted in Meta Reading, Moses, Pop Culture Echoes, tagged Cartoons, Greek Myths, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Roman Writers, Whimsy on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… to link to Kate Beaton cartoons is a good one. I expect I’ll be finding more excuses as time goes on. For instance, she’s pretty much summed up Metamorphoses. Take that, Ovid! Still looking in to the manna thing. Can’t decide which theory is more hilarious/repulsive: the one that suggests manna was the secretions of [...]
The Cradle of Civilization
Posted in 26432319, Archaeology, Meta Reading, Sumer, The Mediterranean World, The Middle East, The Reading List on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a really fantastic animated map from some folks at Maps of War that takes you through more than 53,000 years of the history of the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin in 90 seconds. It’s a simple, graphic, illuminating depiction of how often that region has changed hands. There were two empires I’d never heard [...]
Meta-Reading: A History of Western Philosophy
Posted in Ancient Greece, Biographical Information, Meta Reading, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Uncategorized on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are about to get into the Ancient Greeks, so I’ve been looking for good commentary and historical works. So far I’ve been working with Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy. If you want to have a good basic overview of western civilization, you could pretty much get there with this one book. For [...]
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Beware of New-Age Woo
Posted in Ancient Egyptian Literature, Archaeology, Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Meta Reading, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, Translations on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Egyptian Book of The Dead: Writers Unknown, Dates Various. The Ancient Egyptians are darned fascinating, so it’s no surprise that all kinds of unsavory or addlepated or merely unscholarly types have latched on to them over the years, spreading a lot of misinformation that results either from poor understanding of what’s actually been discovered, [...]
Meta-Reading for Gilgamesh
Posted in Archaeology, Criticism, Epics, Meta Reading, Sumer, The Epic of Gilgamesh on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So far I’ve found two companion reads for this. One’s a book, the other a series of lectures on a website. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, by David Damrosch, 2007. From educator Clay Burrell’s “Beyond School” blog: Unsucky English Series on Gilgamesh. Haven’t read Damrosch’s book yet– [...]
The Reading List
Posted in Housekeeping, Meta Reading, The Reading List, Uncategorized, Western Bias, tagged book clubs, great books, great books lists, literature, reading groups on May 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Books of All Time reading list has been compiled from a number of sources, which, of course, I didn’t write down. I have split my titles into groups: Pre-Christian Literature (to about 50 AD) Rome and the Middle Ages (to 1500) The Renaissance (to 1750) The Enlightenment (to 1850) The Modern Era (to 1918) [...]
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