December 24th, 2020 I finished reading the rest of Classical Myth by Barry Powell within the last week. It took me a while to finish it and even more time to get to the point where I was ready to write. I’ve had a couple of really busy weeks at work. Fortunately, I’m taking 3 …
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November 19th, 2020 I just finished reading Part 2 of Classical Myth by Barry Powell and wanted to summarize what I’ve read. First I wanted to address what I was thinking about a little while ago. I’ve been using the language that I’m reviewing books, but I think I’m not always doing that. I think …
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November 11th, 2020 I wanted to do a quick review of Part 1 of Classical Myth by Barry Powell. This could be considered more of a textbook and was used as such when I took a class on classical myth in college. It goes over the myths of the Ancient Greeks and Romans with allusions …
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November 5th, 2020 I just finished reading Volume 1 of A History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade and I wanted to write a review, but first I wanted to have a quick discussion about some thoughts that I’ve been having recently. I had breakfast with someone who I would consider a conservative Christian this …
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October 15th, 2020 I just finished reading Part 1 of A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson and I wanted to do a quick review as well as share some thoughts that I was having. The book is not a scholarly or academic endeavor but derives from the author’s reading and interpretation of some …
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October 9th, 2020 I just finished reading The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts by Israel Finklestein and Neil Asher Silberman. It was quite a difficult book to get through. It discussed the various archeological finds that related to the Old Testament. The main takeaway that …
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September 20th, 2020 Since I’ve finished reading the Old Testament, I wanted to take a moment to organize my thoughts around history in an effort to provide a framework for my understanding of the Bible and the Judeo-Christian tradition as well as other works and ideas. I’d like to do this so I can move …
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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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