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BreakfastInBed
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do
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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: Reading the Bible |
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Anyone else reading it? After many false starts over the years I've finally gone on a tear and made it a good way through. I expect to finish in a week or two. Yes, I am proud of myself. Yes, I want a pat on the back.
I'm warming up for Ulysses. |
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Binch Lover
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Good on ya. You should make a start on "Grimm's Fairy Tales" next. It's a bit more realistic though. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: Re: Reading the Bible |
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| BreakfastInBed wrote: |
Anyone else reading it? After many false starts over the years I've finally gone on a tear and made it a good way through. I expect to finish in a week or two. Yes, I am proud of myself. Yes, I want a pat on the back.
I'm warming up for Ulysses. |
EDIT: double post.
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: Re: Reading the Bible |
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| BreakfastInBed wrote: |
Anyone else reading it? After many false starts over the years I've finally gone on a tear and made it a good way through. I expect to finish in a week or two. Yes, I am proud of myself. Yes, I want a pat on the back.
I'm warming up for Ulysses. |
If you are warming up for Ulysses, read up on Vico, Bruno, Ruskin, Defoe, Gide, Dante, Irish history, Irish ballads of the 1900's, the history of Dublin, Irish literature of the late 19th and early 20th century, Aristotle, Aquinas, Yeats, Wilde, Freud, Baudelaire, Chaucer, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Goethe, Sacher-Masoch, Homer, Rimbaud, Valery, Melville, the Hapsburg's, Virgil, to name a few. In no particular order.
http://home.bway.net/hunger/ulysses.html |
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shifty
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:20 am Post subject: |
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Yo Breakfast
I'm interested whether you are reading it front to back, skipping nothing, both testaments. |
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BreakfastInBed
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:29 am Post subject: Re: Reading the Bible |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
If you are warming up for Ulysses, read up on Vico, Bruno, Ruskin, Defoe, Gide, Dante, Irish history, Irish ballads of the 1900's, the history of Dublin, Irish literature of the late 19th and early 20th century, Aristotle, Aquinas, Yeats, Wilde, Freud, Baudelaire, Chaucer, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Goethe, Sacher-Masoch, Homer, Rimbaud, Valery, Melville, the Hapsburg's, Virgil, to name a few. In no particular order.
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Thanks for the tip. I'm conversant with a fair portion of these already, but some I've never looked at. I ordered The New Bloomsday Book to follow up with. I figure I'll give the novel a go with what I know, read the companion book, a little more background, then give it another shot. This will be over a couple of years I expect. I'm in no hurry. If it's all it's supposed to be I figure I can live with it enjoyably as an ongoing project for quite some time.
Can I bug you with questions as I go?  |
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BreakfastInBed
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| shifty wrote: |
Yo Breakfast
I'm interested whether you are reading it front to back, skipping nothing, both testaments. |
That's the plan. There have been some rough stretches doing it that way, but I figure it has to be done at least once. Next time I'll skip around but first I've got to learn what to skip and where to skip to. I'll finish Jeremiah and Lamentations tonight. I want to read the apocrypha as well but I'm going to need a break first. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: |
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If you do 4 chapters a day, it'll (bible) be finished in a year.
Didn't read every word till a couple of years ago.
I have the NIV (dramatized) on MP3, it's a blast while your walking and stuff.
Sometimes brings a relevant bit to prominence, which would otherwise have been overlooked.
Some of the old testament is a little dry and brutal, makes you glad you never lived BC (no mercy for the ungodly)! Half old, half new is a good balanced way do the bible. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| Ecclesiastes will be the best part. You'll probably finish that in a single day (12 chapters) because it's such a page-turner. It's like a long forum post about life, but written by an ancient Jewish king instead of an ESLer. |
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BreakfastInBed
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| ^ Vanity of vanities! What I was really taken with was the radical slap in the face of Job after book upon book of history and tales and lists. It was a breathtaking shift in tone, style, and thought. |
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Oreovictim
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:16 am Post subject: Re: Reading the Bible |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
If you are warming up for Ulysses, read up on Vico, Bruno, Ruskin, Defoe, Gide, Dante, Irish history, Irish ballads of the 1900's, the history of Dublin, Irish literature of the late 19th and early 20th century, Aristotle, Aquinas, Yeats, Wilde, Freud, Baudelaire, Chaucer, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Goethe, Sacher-Masoch, Homer, Rimbaud, Valery, Melville, the Hapsburg's, Virgil, to name a few. In no particular order.
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Thanks for the tip. I'm conversant with a fair portion of these already, but some I've never looked at. I ordered The New Bloomsday Book to follow up with. I figure I'll give the novel a go with what I know, read the companion book, a little more background, then give it another shot. This will be over a couple of years I expect. I'm in no hurry. If it's all it's supposed to be I figure I can live with it enjoyably as an ongoing project for quite some time.
Can I bug you with questions as I go? |
Sure. I'm a self-proclaimed Joycean Scholar (mostly because Joyce scholarship tends to look past formal degrees), but also studying him for years probably helps  |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Ecclesiastes will be the best part. You'll probably finish that in a single day (12 chapters) because it's such a page-turner. It's like a long forum post about life, but written by an ancient Jewish king instead of an ESLer. |
I loved Songs of Solomon. I couldn't believe the stuff that was in there! Very beautiful imagery I might add. |
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shifty
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Well, frankly I'm impressed, I thought it wouldn't be the case that you'd read it all.
The reason why I'm in the know, that a pitifully small number of Bible carriers actually read them at length is a radio program that I heard.
First year students of theology were complaining that one year is simply too short a time to digest the whole Bible. Not study, merely read and perhaps give indications of job done.
I realised that if people under pressure take an entire year, then imagine your ordinary Sunday worshipper, with no visible strictures to do likewise. Their bibles are for show only, proudly borne underarm for its pages ne'er to see the light of day.
I swear to god, in my home, there are about 7 or 8 Bibles scattered in the bookshelves. They're all virgin, yet the Bible Society piously proclaims a great need and wants donations to print yet more of them.
Well, OP, at least you're doing something to make it all meaningful. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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| shifty wrote: |
Well, frankly I'm impressed, I thought it wouldn't be the case that you'd read it all.
The reason why I'm in the know, that a pitifully small number of Bible carriers actually read them at length is a radio program that I heard.
First year students of theology were complaining that one year is simply too short a time to digest the whole Bible. Not study, merely read and perhaps give indications of job done.
I realised that if people under pressure take an entire year, then imagine your ordinary Sunday worshipper, with no visible strictures to do likewise. Their bibles are for show only, proudly borne underarm for its pages ne'er to see the light of day.
I swear to god, in my home, there are about 7 or 8 Bibles scattered in the bookshelves. They're all virgin, yet the Bible Society piously proclaims a great need and wants donations to print yet more of them.
Well, OP, at least you're doing something to make it all meaningful. |
You know what I'd like to see is the whole Bible accompanied by a video of something similar to the graphics from Ultima 7 - nothing too flashy, but something that keeps a person's attention through all the boring parts. Nothing like the Brick Testament either, and no extra messages, just the Bible with a spoken text throughout (scrolling on the right), simple but interesting enough graphics, and maybe a bit of music like the original game as well. Nothing too over the top, just relaxing like this song for example:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YQpQp4CYW3k |
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