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"J" was once an icon for the intimate "I" .. and can be related to "Remy awe" ... the shock of the broach or breach ... as something missing ... vacancy in the realm of man for respect for the great spread given by Sophia ... by Grace in some terms ... ask George .. he played God in one set of theatrics ... D' Rhama? That lass in the lime lights in the theatrics of aeropageanism?

Nothing is learned without a good myth, legend, ballad, or story to drive it on ... something even deeper to understand than adepts like Noah ... who had no awe for everything .. so he was set afloat ... and this was flouted ...

Flout:
openly disregard (a rule, law or convention).
"these same companies still flout basic ethical practices"
synonyms: defy, refuse to obey, disobey, break, violate, fail to comply with, fail to observe, contravene, infringe, breach, commit a breach of, transgress against.​

Given the disrespect of word should something be questioned in doubt ... like a gnostic approach? Given how little we know about everything integrated as God! Thus there are rifts and tears in the veil ...

Might've been Cana degrading to Canon as the blast tore through the vale ... Judi Sem? After that the Hebrew was laid out ... an alien ambiguous tongue to say least ... derived from the land of imagination and abstract (Africa). The question remains Hoo Dunne IT?

Tis ongoing myth to occupy those dumped upon this space ... reality of occupation? Life is a Job to take something from ... learning? Go slow ... take critical notes ... could be necessary for the next layer of the thing ...
 
2 Kings 24-25 and 2 Chronicles 36 tell the story of the fall of Jerusalem and the expulsion of the upper-classes that we have pieced together in reading Jeremiah.
As I see it there were four events in the story/history of the Jews that shaped who they (and we) are today: Slavery in Egypt; captivity in Babylon; The split with the Christians coinciding with the unsuccessful revolt against Rome; and the Holocaust in Germany.
The prophet Habakkuk's short book was written just previous to the Babylonian conquest. It is written in poetry in the form of a conversation between the prophet and God.
 
Seeler said:
The split with the Christians coinciding with the unsuccessful revolt against Rome;
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This is an interesting flash-point of monotheistic thought. I always find it interesting to read Christian scriptures with a "pre- and post" destruction of Jerusalem in mind, with Paul's writings being clearly pre-destruction and Mark's origins being probably clearly pre- versus the other Gospels being post.
 
BetteTheRed said:
This is an interesting flash-point of monotheistic thought. I always find it interesting to read Christian scriptures with a "pre- and post" destruction of Jerusalem in mind, with Paul's writings being clearly pre-destruction and Mark's origins being probably clearly pre- versus the other Gospels being post.
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Shades of anti-semitism in the NT? Mathew has Jesus blaming the pharisees of being demon possessed and sons of hell. And Mark makes it clear in his passion narrative that it was the scribes and elders that condemned Jesus to death. Pontious Pilate comes off smelling like a rose, despite the Romans constant persecution of Christians and Josephus and Philo describing Pilates cruelty in historical detail.
 
Seems odd in the OT the Jews are persecuted but the NT switches to the Jews being the persecutors even while the Romans are trying to crush them.
 
If the scribes and Pharisees were powerful ... did they corrupt the populace of Jews ... or did the Judi'NS corrupt the legal standings ?

Some will believe any kind of script ... thus the aural message ... like Halo there ... I didn't see you watching ...

Twas the friend in silence ...
 
BetteTheRed said:
History as written by the victors?
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There is that rumour ... and what do the pagans do?

Whine and generate myths about the virtue's of learning to avoid the victors ... thus they live in the arid areas and the blackness of the forest ... making suite cakes? Nymph onus ...

Responsive critters ...
 
Back to Jeremiah 41 - 44 - When the rulers and officials and community leaders were exiled to Babylon, the poor were left behind in Judah. Jeremiah advised them to submit to the oversight of the Babylonians, but they rebelled and fled to Egypt, taking Jeremiah with them. So now we have : the ten northern tribes conquered by the Assyrians in 721 and scattered among the surrounding nations; the elites of the Jews from Judah taking into captivity by the Babylonians in 587; the poor left in Judah under the oversight of the Babylonians and those who tried to avoid submitting to Babylonian rule by fleeing to Egypt.
The short chapter 45 seems to be misplaced. It is pre-exile - a letter from Jeremiah to Baruch during the reign of King Jehoiakim.
Ch 46 ff - Apparently Judah wasn't the only country attack by Babylon. They were one of many small countries lying between Egypt on the Nile to the south-west and Babylon on the Euphrades on the north-west. In poetry again, Jeremiah gives a warning of the coming destruction of the Philistines and the Moabites as Egypt and Babylon battle for dominance of the trade routes.
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Ch 51 - In the final chapter Jeremiah, now living in Babylon, predicts the destruction of Babylon and the return of the Jews to Jerusalem (Zion).

On to Lamentations
 
Lamentations is a short book, only five chapters. It is written in poetry and easy to read unless you find it too depressing. It is written after the fall of Jerusalem. Jeremiah laments over the destruction of that great city. He paints a realistic if horrid picture of the aftermath of war - desperate mothers, hungry children, destruction and despair.
Yet he urges the people to trust in God. God will have compassion and restore them.
Since Jeremiah thinks of God as all powerful and closely involved in the lives of nations, he sees this suffering as ppunishment for sin. They have broken the covenant and God has either forgotten them and left them at the mercy of their enemies or God is ppunishing them. But they are urged to wait and hope. God will forgive them and restore them.
 
Hi Seeler,

A small note to express appreciation for your synopsis of Old Testament readings. You have nicely captured the essence of protracted narratives. Thanks for sharing it here.

George
 
The only thing left to lament is the lack of face to face exchange ... of laughter ... it would upset the more cereus authority ...

Like Irish gruel ... authority goes on in confined domains ... they can't loosen up ... what's in the darkness is tight? Thus the shadow's antes ... sentience? If you can get into it sapiens ... it could be wise! Like a salty tower in the past ... snappy as synaptic gaps ... the essence of neurons ...
 
Ezekiel 1-6 - another long scroll to unroll.
I heard somebody say once after reading about the prophets that they were all crazy and in today's world they would be locked up in an hospital for the insane. She seemed mainly to be referring to Ezekiel.
Ezekiel was a prophet to the Jewish exiles in Babylon.
He reported vivid dreams or visions such as the one reported here of the four living creatures, each with four faces, that came surrounded by fire.
There is a lot of symbolism in his prose.
I associate it with some Spiritual hymns or choruses: Ezekiel Saw a Wheel a Rolling, Way in the Middle of the Air. and later 'Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones'.
It should be an interesting but confusing read. Not to be taken literally.

And again - it seems that events in this book are going to be difficult to place on a time line. After telling us that he is writing in Babylon, by chapter 3 he is predicting events he says will happen in Jerusalem, which predated the exile.
 
Sometimes when we're talking about some of the Hebrew symbolisms, I wish we had membership with an understanding of Kabbalah.
 
After a vision of destruction, the Lord promises to give the remnant of the people an undivided heart and a new spirit and to give them back the land of Israel.
 
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