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“All did not go well with this democratic approach: division arose between the Americans and the British over the name for God.”
-Bruce Gordon on a 19th century attempt to translate the Bible into Chinese (The Bible: A Global History)
Jane Kenyon
La Chimera ruled
Spring albums: Graceland, Father of the Bride, Shore
New season has got to begin
I can feel it leaning in, whispering
open.spotify.com/track/6pRIJ3...
-Bruce Gordon, The Bible: A Global History
“Whereas earlier revisions [of the KJV] had focused on typos, efforts were now focused on improving the translations. Not all went well. The most outrageous misfire came in 1631 with the so-called Wicked Bible, in which a crucial ‘not’ was omitted from the seventh commandment”
Wings of Desire (1987)
-Bruce Gordon, The Bible: A Global History
"Another [fossil] find, near Albany, NY, was recorded by Cotton Mather, who argued in a letter to the Royal Society in London that they were the bones of the Nephilim...for Mather, the discovery confirmed that...key stories in the OT had actually taken place in the Americas"
-Bruce Gordon, The Bible: A Global History
"Unlike in the West, were clear lines of demarcation separated Catholics and Protestants, in the East [in the 16th century] there was a much more fluid culture in which a wide range of groups, from Jesuits to Unitarians, found space in lands such as Transylvania and Poland."
"It is fair to say that as a creation of humanist Latin, Erasmus's New Testament was a jewel. In contrast, as a piece of textual scholarship it was a flop" (Ibid)
“[The Coverdale Bible] was known as the Bug Bible or Treacle Bible on account of two notable passages: ‘Thou shall not need to be afraid of any bugs at night’ (Ps. 91:5) and ‘There was no more treacle at Galahad’ (Jer. 8:22).”
-Bruce Gordon, The Bible: A Global History
...[the narcissist's] insecurity, which he can overcome only by seeing his 'grandiose self' reflected in the attentions of others, or by attaching himself to those who radiate celebrity, power, and charisma. For the narcissist, the world is a mirror"
-Christopher Lasch
-Bruce Gordon, The Bible: A Global History
"Chaucer likely did not have a Bible open in front of him for easy consultation for the plethora of scriptural references that pour from the mouths of his bawdy characters...his men and women quote scripture from memory...in a mostly illiterate world, the Bible was simply known"
Nirvanna: The Band - the Show - the Movie was great; I'm surprised I hadn't heard of these fellows before but I'm very much looking forward to the Bourdain movie now
Important updates in the 25 favorite songs playlist space: open.spotify.com/playlist/7yJ...
“[The Bible] is, as it were, a kind of river, if I may so liken it, which is both shallow and deep, wherein both the lamb may find a footing, and the elephant float at large” -Gregory the Great, quoted in “The Bible: A Global History” by Bruce Gordon
Jason Isbell
I almost entered a fugue state from how good this show was
"The desert was the only proper place for Yahweh and his beloved to start seeing each other again."
A Lenten sentence from Roberto Calasso's "The Book of All Books"
Joan Didion on Jackson’s 1988 supporters
“Evil does not reach its perfect state simply by being committed. It is at least equally importantly that it be wrongly named, since this guarantees that the mind cannot come to see it clear and whole” -Roberto Calasso, The Book of All Books
