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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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I used to read those all the time as a kid. I remember checking them out two at a time from the library, reading them that night and then returning them the next day to get two more. I couldn't even begin to tell you the plot of a single book now, but I do remember enjoying them.
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Until thke sixth grade it would take me a week or two to read one. Then I took an advanced English class in the 6th grae where they taught us to speed read. Suddenly I was reading The Hardy Boys and similar books in 2 hours instead of two weeks! That go very expensive and I was reading them faster than they were publishing new ones. By the time the 8th grade rolled around I had also read every age appropriate book at the Public Libary!.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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01-09-2022, 02:17 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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The Hebrew Bible
A translation with commentary
By Robert Alter
3 volumes:
The Torah, The Prophets, The Writings
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AWESOME! 
Please share any thoughts you have on his translation and/or commentary.
I have the three-volume set. And all the published translations before the three-volume set was complete. I've read the Torah, the Former Prophets, the Wisdom Books, and several of the Writings.
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01-09-2022, 05:00 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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AWESOME!
Please share any thoughts you have on his translation and/or commentary.
I have the three-volume set. And all the published translations before the three-volume set was complete. I've read the Torah, the Latter Prophets, the Wisdom Books, and several of the Writings. |
As I'm sure you know  Alters passion is to capture the literary devices, beauty, poetry, alliteration, metaphors, repetitons, etc of the Hebrew bible in contrast to the translations of modernity which only seek to explain the text but gloss over the nuances which give depth, heart, and meaning.
I was introduced to Alter via a Teaching Company course on the book of Genesis and I have not been able to stop reading.
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01-22-2022, 04:36 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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As I'm sure you know Alters passion is to capture the literary devices, beauty, poetry, alliteration, metaphors, repetitons, etc of the Hebrew bible in contrast to the translations of modernity which only seek to explain the text but gloss over the nuances which give depth, heart, and meaning.
I was introduced to Alter via a Teaching Company course on the book of Genesis and I have not been able to stop reading. |
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01-22-2022, 09:23 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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Did you finish this or still working on it?
i’d like to know your thoughts on it
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Still got to finish it, but it's good. You should get it.
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01-22-2022, 09:29 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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Still got to finish it, but it's good. You should get it.
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Let me know what you think of it when you're finished.
I heard a preacher the other day say, because the older generation of preachers believed the coming of the Lord was in their time. They didn't save for retirement, they opted out of S.S, so therefore they're now having to preach until there 80. Yet, now this generation believes the coming of the Lord is going to take place in their time. LOL! Oh how history repeats herself.
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01-22-2022, 09:32 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
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Did you finish this or still working on it?
i’d like to know your thoughts on it
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Still got to finish it, but it's good. You should get it.
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Today pull up the little weeds,
The sinful thoughts subdue,
Or they will take the reins themselves
And someday master you. --Anon.
The most deadly sins do not leap upon us, they creep up on us.
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02-18-2022, 01:33 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
I've recently begun a book called The Genius of Jesus: The Man Who Changed Everything by Erwin Raphael McManus:
https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Jesus-.../dp/0593137388
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02-18-2022, 02:37 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
McManus 
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02-18-2022, 04:01 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading Currently, 2.0
The Holy Spirit, a Commentary
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