Exegete. Hee.

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I am exegeting the Bible right now. Yay. It's actually a really long and tedious process for only about two to six sentences of material. I have to keep looking at various different commentaries and sources and nitpick things like, Mark says "tear" while Matthew and Luke say "open." And John? John's way out there.

I also just read Revelations for the first time, and I was amused (this is probably not a good thing). But I swear, whoever was writing that had a very fertile imagination, or else he was on some kind of ancient crack, like Coleridge and his poetry. Or Blake. But I finally got to read the first place the Whore of Babylon and the Four Horsemen show up, which pleased me. I like finding the "original" bits of where sayings and whatnot come from. And according to Revelations, Death rides a pale green horse! I didn't know that either. But reading about the Four Horsement in there and the general strangeness of the end of the world made Good Omens even funnier in retrospect.

I love Good Omens. It's one of those fantasy books on the apocalypse in the grand style of Douglas Adams and Monty Python. Hee.

I still haven't been able to find a beta reader for my little Forbidden Game ficlet, but then, that's probably because I haven't been looking very hard. It also seems as though the entire LJS fandom is very small and very non-active. The drabble list has about 6 members =(. Oh well.. at least everyone there posts a lot, inspiring me to write more too! I must keep writing this time and not let the writing muscle fall into disuse, as I do all the time. I also need to write a happy, non-miserable drabble sometime.

I also have grand plans to make more Sandman icons, except Sandman pics are REALLY HARD to find online! Must get my copies back from Cyrus and figure out how to scan! Then I want to make a whole bunch of author ones. And a NJ pride one for hecatehatesthat because I complain about her state all the time ;).

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And a NJ pride one for hecatehatesthat because I complain about her state all the time ;).

SQUEE!!

Feel the NJ love. FEEL IT!!

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Oh I feel it all right! ^_~

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I also just read Revelations for the first time, and I was amused (this is probably not a good thing). But I swear, whoever was writing that had a very fertile imagination, or else he was on some kind of ancient crack, like Coleridge and his poetry. Or Blake.

Well, that's one theory! Lots of commentators say John was high as a kite when he wrote Revelations. Personally, I don't believe it. And even if it were true, I don't think it makes what he wrote any less real or divinely inspired. Hey, if I'm going to believe Jesus came back from the dead and walked on water, it's not a stretch for me to believe that John received a revelation from God. And... er, yeah, not that I'm a crazy fanatic or anything :)

Seriously, Revelations is one of my favourite books because of the imagery and symbolism, the synchronocity. It's a fascinating read, intellectually, but kind of scary if you take it as a literal description of the end times.

Death rides a pale green horse!

LOL! You know, I remember reading that one time, but I can't find it in the versions I usually use. Not NIV or NASB or KJV. Which version of the Bible are you using? Sometimes that makes a difference.

ETA: Did a search. You're using the New Living Translation, right? I've never used that one before. I think the best/most accurate translation is the New American Standard Bible (NASB). Most common version, among my circle of church friends, is the NIV. It's what I grew up with. I think most quoted tends to be KJV.

What parts exactly are you "exegeting", if I may ask?

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As to beta readers, you can feel free to post to ljsmithfans. I've gotten good beta through there. You might also want to try on the ttales forums (http://www.ttales.net/cgi-bin/teemz/teemz.cgi?board=_master), since most of the LJS writers hang out there.

You will quickly discover that our fandom is tiny, apathetic, and scary. You will go through bouts of great anger, sadness, and finally, resignation. I've been in the fandom for six years, active in it for three, and I've been there and done that a billion times. The only encouraging comments I can give are that (a) LJS' latest book's release is looming on the horizon, which might bring us some new blood, and (b) when I became active in the fandom 3 years ago it was much more dead than it is now. So things are looking up.

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And even if it were true, I don't think it makes what he wrote any less real or divinely inspired. Hey, if I'm going to believe Jesus came back from the dead and walked on water, it's not a stretch for me to believe that John received a revelation from God. And... er, yeah, not that I'm a crazy fanatic or anything :)

Course not! ^_^ I don't mean to insult it, because I figure, to anyone else, what I believe in looks like I'm on crack too. Der. I don't think that quite came out the way it was meant to. I was raised Christian, but kind of fell out of it (though both my sister and my mother still are).

I think my class is using the Harper Collins Study Bible (New Revised Standard Version), although I do think most people I know use the NIV.

I was doing an exegesis on Mark 1:9-11 (with the Matthew, Luke and John parallels) on the baptism on Jesus.. it's for my class on the New Testament and Christian origins. I think it's absolutely fascinating, correlating what I personally know of Christianity with the early days of the religion and just how much is there. It's also almost like reading Shakespeare for the first time in discovering all the phrases that come from it. I had no idea Jesus was the one who said "pearls before swine."

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Oooo thanks for the advice!

Oh dear, small fandom, eh? Hrm. Well, at least there are still some people around. I remember being involved in a seriously small portion of another fandom -- I was probably one of the first online Zechs/Noin shippers in the Gundam Wing fandom, and it was just so frustrating! Thanks for the info though!

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I don't mean to insult it, because I figure, to anyone else, what I believe in looks like I'm on crack too.

Don't worry, I didn't take insult :) I was raised Christian too, except I haven't quite fallen out yet. Er, not that I'm trying to or anything!

It's also almost like reading Shakespeare for the first time in discovering all the phrases that come from it. I had no idea Jesus was the one who said "pearls before swine."

Heh, I know exactly what you mean. So many of our old proverbs and adages come from the Bible, but nobody ever knows exactly where, how, or why.