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Western Civilization is a Rube Goldberg machine, not a category that means anything; change my mind

Ancient History 😍
References to Bible myth as ancient history 🫥

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I will swear by this book as a must-read for anyone and I’ll say more about that later

That’s right! Real books are for squares!!!

Oh yeah it’s about to get SO sexy

The Trojan Women is SO GOOD. I want to direct 👿

Andromache is just okay but Hecuba ABSOLUTELY slaps
Is this Euripides guy still churning out new stuff?

Yum yum ! A little snack of a read

Okay to be more clear – Murakami seems to write the sapphic experience amazingly, from the perspective of an “outsider” which feels EXTREMELY like trans lesbianism in my experience. I’m going to have to reread some older stuff and see if there are similar vibes

You know this is as close to writing from the perspective of his manic pixies but it interests me that they are always sapphic
There is something transfemme and lesbianly here and I hope it sticks around

#MurakamiTryWritingYourWomenFromTheirOwnPerspectiveChallenge

lol transformers ruined the name Metatron I’m sorry Metatron I’m sure you were a cool archangel-deity

Every once in a while when you read Biblical Scholarship for funsies you come across a read that’s real dense and also real rich. This is one of those I’m going to have to slow down to truly appreciate! Time to buckle in 😩

What’s frustrating about a work like this is how can you examine it critically as a book? It feels so intensely personal at times, any engagement with this book beyond support for its values and ideals feels fraught. I have things i want to address but is it not my place??? I may belong to the disability community in some way, but I am not involved enough to feel like part of the conversation at certain points

FUCK I love this book and it’s upsetting that it all feels a bit cheapened by knowing Lewis so well and seeing him just trying to illustrate a real theological point he holds.
It’s like having a great conversation with someone only to discover they wanted you to go to their church

Ugh this man will always hold a special place in my heart, and projects like this are why.
I hope I see some growth here in how Lewis writes women, how he relates to them!

Hot damn does this book hit different in 2025
I need to learn more about this man so I can speak to the history of this book with more certainty because you KNOOOOW I’ve got things to say!

Okay the Enuma Elish absolutely fucks

Call me Ut-Napishtim the way I stay above it all 😤😤😤 #grindset

This dude! “It would be ridiculous if Israelites believed Foreskin Hill was made of heaped foreskins”! HA!

Oh brother this guy STINKS

Quite honestly love Gilgamesh’s boyfriend Enkidu 💙

H*ck yeah

I know my special interest is showing but I truly think this information could be so well transmitted to modern church-goers if only it were delivered the right way

Truly in the coming decade i think it is important to save books like these – foundational critical commentaries of the Bible. This book is 30 years old and still provides the best evidence-based info I can find on a book of the Bible that carries a lot of the genocidal weight in strands of Christianity and Judaism

The treatment of the Rahab story is INCREDIBLE! Especially for a book written in the 90s?? Especially for a HIGH STATUS Biblical commentary?? I liked it so much I sent it to my parents
I hope in the 30 years of scholarship since that Rahab's tradition at the core of Joshua 2 has held up!

What can I say I’m a slut for my little commentaries but only if they’re good ones (this one is)