Interesting idea. Is there enough consensus on that to actually do it?
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Well, that is how Christian and Jewish Bibles are normally organized.
And I'm a bit surprised that nobody has so far reacted to my snarky lottery remark.
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Bingo! Bruce and I made a similar connection in the episode. "Pulaski 2.0" was one of my faves in the first half of the book. Haven't gotten to the second half, yet. That's in an upcoming episode!
Ah, but you're going even more thematically than the ancients did!
Today's library haul:
Nights of the Living Dead, edited by Jonathan Maberry and George Romero. A short-story collection inspired by a certain seminal zombie movie.
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein, by Anne Eekhout. A new novel about Mary Shelley (translated from the Dutch).
Nights of the Living Dead, edited by Jonathan Maberry and George Romero. A short-story collection inspired by a certain seminal zombie movie.
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein, by Anne Eekhout. A new novel about Mary Shelley (translated from the Dutch).
Not at all.
Please note that there may be errors in sequence, and possibly in what is included; I'm not a biblical scholar, nor do I play one on television.
Drop out the italicized apocryphal books (and apocryphal additions to Esther and Daniel) from the sequence I gave (or treat them all as an appendix), and you get the standard Protestant/Anglican Bible.
Include the italicized apocryphal books, inserting Second Maccabees between First Maccabees and Job, and omitting only Prayer of Manasses and First and Second Esdras, and you get the standard Roman Catholic Bible.
Insert First Esdras before Ezra (confusingly called Second Esdras), slice up Maccabees slightly differently, and you get an approximation of the Eastern Orthodox Bible.
In the standard Jewish Bible (which of course eliminates the New Testament), the Torah is followed by Joshua, Judges, Samuel (First and Second, combined), Kings (ditto), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets (same sequences as Christian Bibles), then a section called Ketuvim, typically in the Talmudic sequence (more chronological) of Ruth, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Ezra (including Nehemiah), and Chronicles (again, First and Second, combined). Or in the Tiberian/Spanish sequence (more thematic), Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, and Ezra.
So in effect, my sequence is no more thematic than any other sequence. And since many books describe the same events, and some (particularly Judith and Esther) are arguably works of fiction (both invoke the "Anachronism Stew" trope, and Judith, in particular, could be a retelling and elaboration of the story of Deborah, in Judges), a chronological sequence based on when the events are said to have occurred would not be practical, and a chronological sequence based on when the books are said to have been written would be only slightly more practical.
Reading now:
Princess of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (still on sale for $2.99 the last I checked, thanks to the movie)
Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn
I have never seen this exact conceit before. The dragon-like species can bond with a host and become 2D on their body (think mini Maui from Moana), and they can become partially or completely 3D again at will. It was published within a couple of years of Night Train to Rigel, and the writing style feels similar.
Princess of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (still on sale for $2.99 the last I checked, thanks to the movie)
Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn
I have never seen this exact conceit before. The dragon-like species can bond with a host and become 2D on their body (think mini Maui from Moana), and they can become partially or completely 3D again at will. It was published within a couple of years of Night Train to Rigel, and the writing style feels similar.
That's fine. I had no idea that some of the deuterocanonical books were sequenced where they were. (The only Bible I own is a replica of the Jefferson Bible, and I don't think that counts.) It seems strange to me that the story of the Hasmoneans in First Maccabbees would come before the Babylonian Captivity in Jeremiah (and I don't recall if there's an historical book that covers the period, but if that's the way the ancients wanted it, who am I to argue?
No Alavirah and her husband Willie in the book were a house cleaner and a plumber who won the lottery and they helped people and solved mysteries .They also worked with the police and news reporters and Nuns at a convent to help them solve their cases in New york.
I'm in that book! One of the highlights of my career, getting to write a zombie story for the godfather of modern zombie fiction his own damn self. (And I had it take place in western Pennsylvania where much of my mother's side of the family lives, which was fun.)
A tall glass.
At any rate, I'm over 2/3 of the way through Psalms.
Which makes Richard Matheson the great-godfather of the zombie apocalypse genre, since Romero admitted to being inspired by I Am Legend.
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as Biblical erotica.
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"Solomon had a lot to sing about....." ---Father Mulchahy, M*A*S*H
Jeremiah.
Was a bullfrog?
Was he a good friend of yours? Could you understand a word he said? Did you help him drink his wine? If so, how was it?
Hoyt says it'll be another 3-dog night tonight.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, still Jeremiah, but I'm already well into today's quota. I'm thinking of having the appendix to Jeremiah printed up on a single sheet, and sealed between two sheets of thermal-adhesive-backed plastic: laminated Lamentations.
As Jack Webb so succinctly put it,
*****
Finished Ezekiel. Daniel is next, starting with one of the three Apocryphal parts (Susanna, which is arguably the first detective story in western civilization).
To be followed by Hosea. Always a source of amusement: where else do you find the Almighty ordering a prophet to (as The Rev'd Dr. Gene Scott so succinctly put it) "go marry a whore!"
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