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sobaba is 33% done with The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
Why write a poem of arbitrary suffering? In a world where bad things happen to good people, the rational conclusion seems to be that injustice abounds and God doesn't care to do anything about it. There are the usual apologetics of the incomparability of God and man, these are ultimately don't comfort one's suffering. Even when God speaks to you, he won't touch on the apparent injustice of your situation but gloat.
Oct 31, 2025 03:00AM Add a comment
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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sobaba is on page 15 of 128 of The Word for World Is Forest (Hainish Cycle, #5)
Can more author’s please use introductions 🙏🏾?
Oct 20, 2025 10:06PM Add a comment
The Word for World Is Forest (Hainish Cycle, #5)

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sobaba is 31% done with The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
The Historical Books of the bible are a misnomer in that they are not attempts to accurately note down the history of the Israelites from creation of their kingdom, to its collapse and eventual slow rebuilding. They are a narrative tool to communicate the key message of obedience to God's laws as set in Deuteronomy & co, whilst also emphasising the need for cultural and marital separation from neighbouring cultures.
Oct 04, 2025 11:35AM Add a comment
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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sobaba is on page 121 of 291 of Notes from Underground and The Double
Notes from Underground, features a self-proclaimed anti-hero whose maelstrom of emotions makes for a reading filled with contradictions. The underground man is irrational and intelligent, prideful and cowardly, incisive but inactive and ultimately ... I am for now, confused at what this has to do with determinism and utopian thinking.
Oct 04, 2025 11:28AM Add a comment
Notes from Underground and The Double

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sobaba is 10% done with The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
Reading Numbers, like bits of Exodus, gives you a top-down perspective of what Israeli culture through what they could and couldn’t do. I wonder if that skews our perspective of ancient Israelite society, or does it emphasise the importance of the priestly sect in the running of society.
Mar 08, 2025 04:21AM Add a comment
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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sobaba is 6% done with The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
Exodus was an introduction to the shape and form of what an ancient Israel society would look
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The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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sobaba is 3% done with The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
Genesis has a lot of the most memorable stories of the Bible, it establishes humans as flawed creatures that God has taken a large amount of interest in. It presents patterns and themes that will become key motifs.
Feb 09, 2025 03:42PM Add a comment
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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