Sounds like an interesting film. Xerxes fascinates me, but I don't know too much about his invasions and how it affected the Jewish people too much, just about how it affected the Greeks. ;)
Hey, Oscar! I know; I haven't been on LJ too much.
Let's not confuse the Biblical book of Esther with actual history. First of all, we don't know that it happened at all--some think the entire thing was completely made up, the way someone would write a novel. And if it did happen, we don't know for sure that the king who is called "Ahasuerus" in Esther is actually Xerses I, the invader of Greece of 480BC. That's only a theory. But if it's true, the Greek view of him is very different from the Persian view of him.
For example, as a comparison, think of the way a patriotic German might have written a great praise of Hitler in the early 1940s and then contrast that with a contemporary view of Hitler--you would think they were talking about two different people because the points of view are so widely different.
But this is all a maybe, maybe, maybe because of so few records that have survived from the period of 5 centuries before Christ.
The Biblical book of Esther tells a story about Jews and about a king who at first was
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Hey, Oscar. Thanks for the nudge. It was really nice to see that you are still out there and remember me. I've been away from LJ for quite a while, now. So much, so much, has happened in my personal life since I last updated. However the biggest, most recent, and by far worst thing to ever happen is that my father just died, two-and-a-half weeks ago. It's been pretty devestating. Maybe I'll get back onto LJ and write about it. So in the midst of all this sorrow, it's nice to get that little nudge from you.
It's incredibly ironic that "Eyes Wide Open" had been in my Netflix queue for a while and arrived only a few days before my father's death. I was intending to watch it soon and write a review. Now, I'm not watching anything and certainly in no mood to write film reviews. But I will eventually get to it.
So thanks for the nudge. It's good to hear from you.
From reading your blog, he seemed like an interesting and complicated man.
It's a cliche, but it has helped me to deal with peoples's death, and that is that one's death should not be a mourning, but a time to celebrate that person's life.
But yeah, Eyes Wide Open is a good movie, I think, so I hope you get to watch it. Good films can be therapeutic.
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Sounds like an interesting film. Xerxes fascinates me, but I don't know too much about his invasions and how it affected the Jewish people too much, just about how it affected the Greeks. ;)
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Let's not confuse the Biblical book of Esther with actual history. First of all, we don't know that it happened at all--some think the entire thing was completely made up, the way someone would write a novel. And if it did happen, we don't know for sure that the king who is called "Ahasuerus" in Esther is actually Xerses I, the invader of Greece of 480BC. That's only a theory. But if it's true, the Greek view of him is very different from the Persian view of him.
For example, as a comparison, think of the way a patriotic German might have written a great praise of Hitler in the early 1940s and then contrast that with a contemporary view of Hitler--you would think they were talking about two different people because the points of view are so widely different.
But this is all a maybe, maybe, maybe because of so few records that have survived from the period of 5 centuries before Christ.
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It's incredibly ironic that "Eyes Wide Open" had been in my Netflix queue for a while and arrived only a few days before my father's death. I was intending to watch it soon and write a review. Now, I'm not watching anything and certainly in no mood to write film reviews. But I will eventually get to it.
So thanks for the nudge. It's good to hear from you.
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From reading your blog, he seemed like an interesting and complicated man.
It's a cliche, but it has helped me to deal with peoples's death, and that is that one's death should not be a mourning, but a time to celebrate that person's life.
But yeah, Eyes Wide Open is a good movie, I think, so I hope you get to watch it. Good films can be therapeutic.
Take care. :)
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