September 26th, 2020 I just finished reading Who wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman and I must say it was quite an experience. I will do my best to summarize and provide comments, but I can imagine that I will not do it justice. In short, the book is about the JEPD Theory/Documentary Hypothesis. …
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September 19th, 2020 I have finally finished reading the Old Testament. It’s been a while since my last post, but that was because I hadn’t had any significant revelations for a while and I wanted to finish reading the Old Testament before writing about it. The last part of the Old Testament after the Books …
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 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 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 …