What book are you reading, ιf' - Iff you read books

[JollyRoger]

 

[Hygro]

I just finished all of Leviticus in the King James bible for some random reason not known to me. I was thinking I chose Leviticus because it was one of the books in the Torah that I don't really remember except for Genesis and Exodus which of course name most of the beginning roots of many ancestral people while Exodus has Moses and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt. Leviticus, the third book however, talked about a lot of ways that the priests used to atone for their sins without a Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure people still do atone for sins without Jesus the way it's written in Leviticus.

I don't know anyone who atones for the prescribed sins per Leviticus, let alone follows such laws. It's banishment, animal sacrifice, and execution. There are all these weird types of sins, and key is not only sacrificing the right animal the right way for the right sin, but doing it in the Tabernacle, where the high priest and his family get to eat the sacrifice. Leviticus describes a legal-economic system regulated through religion centered around the tabernacle, with ownership and debts amortized across 49 year jubilee cycles. It's a grind of a book, most of describes the tabernacle and what animal to kill where and how its aroma does or does not please God, but its a pretty comprehensive code.

Genesis details the origins of The World, the People, and the Ancestors of Moses and the People of Israel etc. It proves God's power and and who wins and why. Exodus is kind of like, the same but instead of the birth of a world and a people its the birth of a nation and its unity. It shows how circumstance leads to Moses via God into leadership, and then actions to rules to a constitution of sorts and then more rules and laws. The end of Genesis and the beginning of Exodus is a pretty clear demarcation of prologue -> chapter 1. But Exodus bleeds into Leviticus pretty gradiently, the entire back 20 pages of Exodus could have been in Leviticus, or all of Leviticus in Exodus.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Galaxy sized capitalism meets alien life! Halfway through and its is going strong.

 

[reddishrecue]

I don't know anyone who atones for the prescribed sins per Leviticus, let alone follows such laws. It's banishment, animal sacrifice, and execution. There are all these weird types of sins, and key is not only sacrificing the right animal the right way for the right sin, but doing it in the Tabernacle, where the high priest and his family get to eat the sacrifice. Leviticus describes a legal-economic system regulated through religion centered around the tabernacle, with ownership and debts amortized across 49 year jubilee cycles. It's a grind of a book, most of describes the tabernacle and what animal to kill where and how its aroma does or does not please God, but its a pretty comprehensive code.

Genesis details the origins of The World, the People, and the Ancestors of Moses and the People of Israel etc. It proves God's power and and who wins and why. Exodus is kind of like, the same but instead of the birth of a world and a people its the birth of a nation and its unity. It shows how circumstance leads to Moses via God into leadership, and then actions to rules to a constitution of sorts and then more rules and laws. The end of Genesis and the beginning of Exodus is a pretty clear demarcation of prologue -> chapter 1. But Exodus bleeds into Leviticus pretty gradiently, the entire back 20 pages of Exodus could have been in Leviticus, or all of Leviticus in Exodus.

IMHO, I don't know anyone that would use animals for atonement either and on the tabernacle for sacrifice with a high priest like it is described in Leviticus. Anyhow, I have kept reading lightly and finished the book and am reading Numbers now but less since I've been busy with life and other forms of entertaining things that keep me busy. I have read it, but I don't feel that focused anymore like I used to read Leviticus. As I read it this time, I have so many things going on in my head at the same time that it keeps me difficult to really get what Numbers was talking about. I got up to chapter 8 but don't really recall.

 

[Josu]

Ended The Road by Cormac McCarthy. 4/5

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Reading The Lion and the Unicorn, a collection of short stories by Richard Harding Davis

“If I were to tell them the things you have told me,” he said warningly, “if I were to say I have seen such things—American property in flames, American interests ruined, and that five times as many women and children have died of fever and starvation in three months in Cuba as the Sultan has massacred in Armenia in three years—it would mean war with Spain.”

He's got his priorities right

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

He's got his priorities right

Good story though

“You are like a ring of gamblers around a gaming table,” he cried wildly, “who see nothing but the green cloth and the wheel and the piles of money before them, who forget in watching the money rise and fall, that outside the sun is shining, that human beings are sick and suffering, that men are giving their lives for an idea, for a sentiment, for a flag. You are the money-changers in the temple of this great republic and the day will come, I pray to God, when you will be scourged and driven out with whips. Do you think you can form combines and deals that will cheat you into heaven? Can your ‘trusts’ save your souls—is ‘Wall Street’ the strait and narrow road to salvation?”