Book Club Idea-
So, I was talking to antithiscully about Christian funerals, and through that chain of thought about Soloman. I mentioned that I'd been wanting to reread the Bible as just a series of stories. I've read it a few times years ago, but I was reading it as doctrine and I didn't really study it as a BOOK. It would be interesting to read it in a different context. antithiscully said that she had always been interested in reading it, too, simply as a book.
Which lead me to the idea of a Religious Texts Book Club. A group of people reading various religious texts as books and stories, not to judge or preach, but to get a better understanding of the texts behind global religions. She brought up that we'd need an expert on the books to help us on some of those that are really outside of the Judeo-Christian sphere of knowledge, but I think in a pinch we could use books ABOUT the other books, or annotated texts to get by.
So, I think I'm going to start the project myself. Logically it makes sense to start with the Torah, then to move on to the Bible, and then maybe the Koran. I'll post about what I'm finding in this tag, and see where it goes from there. If anyone wants to join me, I'd love the company/sounding board.
Which lead me to the idea of a Religious Texts Book Club. A group of people reading various religious texts as books and stories, not to judge or preach, but to get a better understanding of the texts behind global religions. She brought up that we'd need an expert on the books to help us on some of those that are really outside of the Judeo-Christian sphere of knowledge, but I think in a pinch we could use books ABOUT the other books, or annotated texts to get by.
So, I think I'm going to start the project myself. Logically it makes sense to start with the Torah, then to move on to the Bible, and then maybe the Koran. I'll post about what I'm finding in this tag, and see where it goes from there. If anyone wants to join me, I'd love the company/sounding board.