you were working as a graverobber
May. 13th, 2009 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbFascinating life is fascinating.
No, really. Well, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm practically leaking Greek and bible bits, after the last couple of days - and trust me, after a life of avoiding anything that remotely smacked of religiosity, finding myself able to quote at least a few sections of the New Testament is very strange.
Eventually, you can't even take it seriously historically. When you find yourself saying things like, "Paul was to Hellenistic (urban) Christianity as Jesus was to Palestinian (rural) Christianity," aside from the problem of defining your terms - to what extent can you divide urban and rural in antiquity? What does "Hellenistic" mean in this context? - you start saying, well, Paul was the Jesus of the early urban church. Which doesn't make any sense.
Yeah. I left the library shortly after I came out with that. Having eaten far too much sugar - I'm at the point where the inside of my head is raw and buzzing, and I can neither focus nor settle while being too sleepy and unfocused to do exercise. I wasn't about to go climbing this evening: I'd be nervous of dropping someone. Or falling. I like falling even less than usual when I'm in this mood.
Tomorrow I can get back to a slightly more archaeological, less theologically fraught section of history. Joys.
The madness, it has arrived in earnest. Fuckit. I hate the exam season. Where've my 'cheerful' and 'optimistic' hats gone?
No, really. Well, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm practically leaking Greek and bible bits, after the last couple of days - and trust me, after a life of avoiding anything that remotely smacked of religiosity, finding myself able to quote at least a few sections of the New Testament is very strange.
Eventually, you can't even take it seriously historically. When you find yourself saying things like, "Paul was to Hellenistic (urban) Christianity as Jesus was to Palestinian (rural) Christianity," aside from the problem of defining your terms - to what extent can you divide urban and rural in antiquity? What does "Hellenistic" mean in this context? - you start saying, well, Paul was the Jesus of the early urban church. Which doesn't make any sense.
Yeah. I left the library shortly after I came out with that. Having eaten far too much sugar - I'm at the point where the inside of my head is raw and buzzing, and I can neither focus nor settle while being too sleepy and unfocused to do exercise. I wasn't about to go climbing this evening: I'd be nervous of dropping someone. Or falling. I like falling even less than usual when I'm in this mood.
Tomorrow I can get back to a slightly more archaeological, less theologically fraught section of history. Joys.
The madness, it has arrived in earnest. Fuckit. I hate the exam season. Where've my 'cheerful' and 'optimistic' hats gone?
