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Oct. 10th, 2008 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbHuh.
That's probably the first time I've ever found an episode of Criminal Minds actually, strangely, in-and-of-itself... comforting.
Weird.
(Prentiss FTW, now and - we hope - forever.)
In other news, no climbing for me today. And possibly not tomorrow, either. I'm made of physical tiredness: haven't a clue why. (Well, apart from the usual female complaint.)
Also, I suspect I'm going to make a fool of myself in my Paul-and-Early-Christianity classes by asking obvious questions. Today's interesting not-heretofore-considered piece of analysis: how the god portrayed in (parts of) the New Testament really does stand in continuity with the god portrayed in (part of) the Old Testament. The story in Acts of Ananias and Saphira seems a particular good example of smiting. Right up there with the smiting in the stories of Elijah and Elisha in Kings.
(Although, Elisha, pretty nasty. Getting Yhwh to send she-bears to tear small boys apart for calling him bald? Serious smiting.)
The god of Israel/Judah, historically, not so much about mercy, it seems.
This might well prove, however, a fascinating course. Both the diaspora course and the Paul one seem to include a large component on the question of identity - and overlapping identities - in the ancient world: questions of resistance, accomodation, assimilation, cultural borrowings, reinterpretations, self-definition of groups: how you could perhaps be Roman and Greek and Jew and Christian to greater or lesser extents, and how this affects the behaviour and philosophy of individuals and communities.
Anyway.
That's probably the first time I've ever found an episode of Criminal Minds actually, strangely, in-and-of-itself... comforting.
Weird.
(Prentiss FTW, now and - we hope - forever.)
In other news, no climbing for me today. And possibly not tomorrow, either. I'm made of physical tiredness: haven't a clue why. (Well, apart from the usual female complaint.)
Also, I suspect I'm going to make a fool of myself in my Paul-and-Early-Christianity classes by asking obvious questions. Today's interesting not-heretofore-considered piece of analysis: how the god portrayed in (parts of) the New Testament really does stand in continuity with the god portrayed in (part of) the Old Testament. The story in Acts of Ananias and Saphira seems a particular good example of smiting. Right up there with the smiting in the stories of Elijah and Elisha in Kings.
(Although, Elisha, pretty nasty. Getting Yhwh to send she-bears to tear small boys apart for calling him bald? Serious smiting.)
The god of Israel/Judah, historically, not so much about mercy, it seems.
This might well prove, however, a fascinating course. Both the diaspora course and the Paul one seem to include a large component on the question of identity - and overlapping identities - in the ancient world: questions of resistance, accomodation, assimilation, cultural borrowings, reinterpretations, self-definition of groups: how you could perhaps be Roman and Greek and Jew and Christian to greater or lesser extents, and how this affects the behaviour and philosophy of individuals and communities.
Anyway.
