August 25th, 2020 I’ve just finished reading the Book of Ecclesiastes and I wanted to compile my thoughts. I think the lessons presented in the Book of Ecclesiastes are lessons that I have learned through experience or study. The main lessons are time moves ever forward and death comes to us all. For a long …
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August 24th, 2020 I just finished reading the Book of Proverbs and would like to organize my thoughts. The Book of Proverbs seems to be a very practical book with a lot of useful sayings. Some notable Proverbs are as follows: “Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.” Proverbs …
August 22, 2020 I finished reading Psalms yesterday and it has sparked some profound thoughts that I’d like to expand on here. Firstly, I went to a Bible study on Sunday and had a good discussion where I talked with some folks about what I had been studying and the conclusions I had made. I …
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August 20, 2020 I finished the Book of Job yesterday and while I don’t think I fully comprehend what was being said, I think it would be beneficial to talk about it. The book of Job is the first book of wisdom literature in the Christian bible and as such the themes and discussion are …
August 16th, 2020 I just finished reading the Book of Esther, as well as the books of Nehemiah earlier and Ezra yesterday. Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book and described the accounts of Jews returning to Jerusalem after being exiled by Nebuchadnezzar. It is my opinion that the events and characters being written are …
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August 13th, 2020 I just finished reading Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by Henri Frankfort and I wanted to do my best to summarize the remainder of that book here (see this previous post for a partial summary of the Egyptian parts) as well as expand on it with my own thoughts. …
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August 8th, 2020 I finished reading 1 Chronicles last night and am currently reading through Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by Henri Frankfort. It’s basically about the formation of a proto-philosophy in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and is fairly difficult to get through so far. I finished the three Egyptian chapters and …
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August 6th, 2020 I am almost done reading Mesopotamian Myths by Henrietta McCall which is a short book that goes into some of the literary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia. When ordering this book from Amazon, a mistake was actually made and I was sent The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of …
August 5th, 2020 Currently, I am reading through the prefaces and introductions for the various books I’ve received to get an idea of the order in which I should read them. As I believe I’ve stated before I want to finish the Bible before reading some other works since the majority of other literary works …
August, 3rd 2020 This is a general update for what’s going on in my life at this time. I currently made it home from visiting my Mom and brother for two weeks and then visiting my sister this past weekend. All-in-all it was good to visit and I’m glad I’m able to spend time with …