Categories: unmentionable
Date: 07 December 2008 17:53:43
This weekend, to the person on board 'The Ship' - my long-time source of subversion and saver of sanity - who pointed me towards the great 'Bible Non-stop thread, just as I was despairing of ever managing to get out of the wilderness and into the Promised Land. Strictly speaking, I'd not yet arrived in Egypt at the time, given that I was ploughing my way through Genesis. For those who are unfamiliar with this blog, I've been doing a distance learning theology course for so long now that I'm a close contender for Jack The Lass's title of Maturest Student In The World; and have just started my penultimate module: an Old Testament introduction. When it comes to making heavy weather of things, the Children of Israel are as nothing compared to Yours Truly. I'd have been right down there melting down all my trinkets and manufacturing not just a calf - but an entire farmyard - before poor Moses had had a chance to descend the mountainside. With or without tablets. So The Ship's version had such an emetic effect that I managed to get through about eight chapters in barely an hour! Murder, mayhem and all the trimmings! They've even managed to brighten up some of those endless genealogies: the type of which strike fear into the hearts of even the most confident reader/lectors. Three cheers for The Ship, I say!
Sorry? What was that? Background reading...ehrm?? Oh well;it was worth a try!