kitchen table math, the sequel: the Good Book

Monday, May 28, 2007

the Good Book

I've decided to read the Bible.

I'm on page 26.
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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've read it a few times over. What stuck with me is how many times it tells us to seek wisdom.

I try my best every day.

May 28, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Catherine Johnson said...

wow!

Good for you!

I keep wanting to say things like "It's an amazing book," but that doesn't work....

May 28, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Catherine Johnson said...

I'm still in the part where I marvel at the fertility problems.

May 28, 2007 at 2:40 PM
TurbineGuy said...

You might want to check out Blogging the Bible over at Slate.

Blogging the Bible

David Plotz is reading the bible, and blogging it as he goes. It's pretty entertaining. I do have to say that after reading him, I am not sure that the Old Testament is age appropriate for children. To much sex and violence.

May 29, 2007 at 4:20 AM
LynnG said...

Try wading through the Sodom and Gomorrah story with your almost 13 year old boy, line by line, for months, in hebrew, as he prepares for his bar mitzvah.

Never knew Lot's daughter got Lot drunk and seduced him so she could get pregnant. Apparently, she was worried that since the world had come to an end, there'd be no eligible bachelors out there.

Anyway, that was an interesting conversation.

May 29, 2007 at 4:30 AM
LynnG said...

Oh, and Lot didn't seem to have that much regard for his daughters anyway, having previously offered them up to the crowd of marauding Sodomites that wanted to molest the angels staying at Lots house. Here, take my daughters instead, offers Lot.

What a guy.

We had no choice in the passage my son was assigned to read. Having been raised Lutheran, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah were kind of "glossed over" in my early religious education.

So I started reading rabbinical commentary, how can Lot be a virtuous guy when he was willing to sacrifice his daughters like that. Haven't found a good explanation yet.

May 29, 2007 at 4:35 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

The Old Testament is WAY not appropriate for kids!

Of course, that was the part I liked as a kid.

May 29, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

And, yes, I was about to bring up Lot's grandkids.

May 29, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

When I read the Lot's grandkids story I thought, "There's a lot of stuff in the Bible they don't tell you about in Sunday School."

May 29, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

Yesterday I discovered that Abraham and Sarah were brother and sister.

Who knew?

May 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

Abraham tells somebody Sarah is the daughter of his father, but not his mother (or vice versa...)

May 29, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

Lot had two daughters, and they didn't get drunk (in the King James Bible).

They got their father drunk, then had sex with him & he didn't remember the next day.

Of course, where he thought the two babies came from, I don't know.

They do this because Lot and the daughters are living in a cave in the mountains & there are no men for them to marry.

May 29, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

having previously offered them up to the crowd of marauding Sodomites that wanted to molest the angels staying at Lots house. Here, take my daughters instead, offers Lot.

Right.

I had to re-read that passage a couple of times.

May 29, 2007 at 11:40 AM

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