Status Update

Sage is 75% done

It is better to die than be chronically ill.
Be ashamed of leaning on your elbow at meals.
Do not be ashamed of drawing blood from the back of a wicked* slave.

* i.e. bad, as opposed to evil

WTF Jesus ben Sirach? This whole book encapsulates the worst of western culture. Gah!

— Sep 08, 2021 10:20PM

Holy Bible: NRSV XL with Apocrypha (tan)

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Sage’s Previous Updates

Sage is 36% done

2 Maccabbees. Fighting the Hellenization of Jerusalem and Judea. Antiochus era. Martyrs get a divine afterlife, contrary to prior beliefs. Dissidents win.

— Aug 26, 2021 11:21PM

Sage is 30% done

So I Maccabees mentions "God" maybe once. The rest is military and political history. It's important and interesting context for c140 BCE, but it's hard to call it "scripture" in the sense of religious texts.

— Aug 10, 2021 08:30PM

Sage is 18% done

— Aug 02, 2021 09:29PM

Sage is 6% done

Finished I Edras. Now in Baruch.

— Aug 02, 2021 07:17PM

Sage is 2% done

Skipping the Hebrew Bible (OT) and reading the Apocrypha. Currently in 1 Edras while reading Oegema's Handbook to the Apocrypha in tandem.

— Jul 25, 2021 02:25PM