View original postI finished the first half (the "Law and Historical Books" section) and now I'm on the second half (the "Poetry and Prophecy" section). I did a short detour into the Vulgate to read Latin Esdras (Also known as 4 Ezrae in the Vulgate, or 4-6 Ezra by modern scholars) since the Greek original is lost. I am happy to report that I read all the books in the first half of the Septuagint, even 4 Maccabees, which is not considered canon by anyone as far as I am aware and only included in an appendix to the Slavonic Bible and previously in the Romanian Bible as its only inclusion in Bibles outside the Septuagint (well, maybe the Ethiopians have it too - but they also have 2 Enoch in their Bible, which no one else ever had).
The Ethiopians do have some seriously strange things in their Bible. Then again, I guess it all depends on what you're used to.
View original postI am also reading American Nations by Colin Woodard and have a few books on my shortlist, like God's Englishman by Christopher Hill and Raymond Aron's L'opium des Intellectuels. I also desperately need to read something in German since it's been almost a year.
Try Lion Feuchtwanger. I gave up on his Erfolg about halfway through as reading an 800 page book in German does take up quite some time, but I did like it and will get back to it at some point - it's set in early '20s Bavaria, absolutely fascinating with the politics, the social tensions, the hyperinflation etc. The author is perhaps a little socialist for your taste, but not in a preachy way, at least not in the parts I read. He also wrote (a version of) Jud Süss, though what with being Jewish himself his version obviously wasn't the anti-Semitic propaganda that the Nazis made of it later.
It's the Solemnity of Mary, the start of AD 2014, and doubtless someone has read some crap, right?
- 01/01/2014 07:00:29 AM
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I plan on reading Goran Petrović's The Siege of the Church of the Holy Savior
- 01/01/2014 07:04:22 AM
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I'm about a quarter through Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. *NM*
- 01/01/2014 02:45:20 PM
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Still reading the Septuagint.
- 01/01/2014 06:29:24 PM
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Read Feuchtwanger! You should like him.
- 01/01/2014 08:10:06 PM
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I have a copy, but I need to devote a year or two to improving my Greek to manage that
- 02/01/2014 08:39:45 AM
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The Hill book was okay but not stellar.
- 12/01/2014 03:16:39 AM
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It might be a product of its time, if it's like his other histories
- 26/01/2014 11:17:33 PM
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Still Virginia Woolf's Melymbrosia.
- 01/01/2014 08:12:48 PM
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I have exams for most of the month, but I guess i'll read something over the last week or so. *NM*
- 02/01/2014 12:00:45 AM
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Reread gentlemen bastards, currently restarting republic of thieves... *NM*
- 02/01/2014 12:56:53 AM
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared *NM*
- 12/01/2014 01:27:03 AM
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