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 …