(Book Review--The Bible, Religion, Reread, The Classics)
Part of my project to read through the Bible.
Started: March 30, 2022
Finished: November 18, 2023
(This is a reread. I originally read this book in 7th grade. But since this is my first time reviewing this book on this blog, according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.)
Commonplace Book
April 3, 2022 Leviticus 1-3
April 10, 2022 Leviticus 3-5
July 24, 2022 Leviticus 5-8
July 31, 2022 Leviticus 8-13
And then, after a year, I restarted Leviticus again from the beginning.
Playlist HERE:
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my jotted down notes:
- By the definitions of the animal laws, dog meat isn't allowed, ooh hooh.
Health guidelines make sense if they had enough to eat. imagine telling that to people (starving or not) in china/vietnam that have traditions of devouring anything that moves
God more picky than my mom. more picky than modern standards
- i take the liberty to interpret 18:22 as don't sleep with a man like they're woman but sleep with them like they're men. which is even gayer. perhaps god foresaw japanese "trap" stuff so he wants to block that degeneracy. or he just loves macho bara stuff
- idk who th is molech but his name sounds like molest so perhaps god made a good point (paragraph about not offering children to molech)
- emphasis on balance (equality) vs confucianism with more emphasis on deference to elders, parents (whether elders parents being wrong or not) which leads to hierarchies. the morals are universally the same (respect adults), but the seeming thin differences is significant
- 21:15 "of his own people" subtle part but important and says a lot
- imagine aaron and his lineage become gaijins all because his sons offered to god some fire of sh1t quality which led to the two being burned up!
- noticed archaic usage of "lay person" in this book, as turned out. (somewhat interesting, def a new thing learned today)
and while i was thinking some joke about lay people too busy laying around they let the priests benefited from the derived education which enriched them literally (as we all see from educated ppl these days) => lead me to think about how powerful those religious people must have been (something average ppl can't def imagine these days, or at least where i live) => some chat with chatgpt leads to mention of many people being suppressed including jews (a reminder) => huge irony
but well, when you live in a predicament which makes you seek power, you just don't seek equality (balance) anymore
- 23: that's a lot of feasts lmao. anyway he calls these feasts (as if they are for the people) but essentially these occasions are to offer stuff to him. 10/10 god.
- -forgot to mention one trivia, which is even though mostly only relevant to east asian cultures (languages), but meaningful: the name of "bible" in other east asian languages could be interpret as "saint's book" or "classics of god/saint" - you may already know.
even though (this is something i only knew just now through chatgpt): "bible" only means "books".
i guess "holy bible" should make it out that "thánh"/sei(聖)/etc. = "holy", so it's supposed to be "holy books" instead. but this just hit me now.
-tempting to make a joke about blowing trumpet as it's a innuendo slang in vietnamese. but i digress. (nostalgic my high school military teacher mentioned "trumpet blowing troops" and class laughed - lecture was listing the typical troops in a military or something like that)
-theres even some laws for lamps, god quite creative isn't he?
-paragraph says eye for eye, concluding with about punishing those blasphemed god (violated different rules). i guess the moral is that if you wanna kill somebody, make them violate the laws and commandments first
- title: leviticus. the book: and barely a single mention of the levites is brought up
-vowing humans to god/priest is some of the most bizarre stuff i have read in this book. i take it as the equivalent of modern bribing
on your video:
- just noticed the subtitle of choice "holocaust" - the more you know i guess, learned original greek meaning
- i guess the charm of reading books like bible is the open interpretation - i for one love it
- old people all think "it's gonna be all the same laws" anyway, implying people are still bearing children these days like birthrates aren't falling
- clean and unclean stuff are still heavily recommended universally these days :>) - tempting to make a personal m*st*rb*tion anecdote which is too sussy to tell
- more productivity -> more prosperity -> more opportunities. now it just came across to me these years that ppl back then didnt necessarily had it worse due to hard work but more like they had nothing they could work.
- countries debts to u.s not an issue cuz econ and stuff
You made it through Leviticus? Well, you're really getting into the weeds now. I found this book mostly a chore to get though, but admittedly it's not nearly as boring as all the descriptions of the tabernacle in Exodus. Or the numbering of names in The Book of Numbers (be forewarned on that one.) More interesting stuff is coming up, though, if you can stick it out. Or just stick ahead to Joshua and Judges.
I did have to skip through stuff like the rituals to do offering and some other stuff. Maybe not having an obligation to read it closely makes it easier. Still, I find Genesis to be harder (out of all the Bible books I have read so far), and I just don't feel any motivation to finish it (even though I tried to reread it).
>imagine aaron and his lineage become gaijins all because his sons offered to god some fire of sh1t quality which led to the two being burned up!
Scratch this line. I just reread Leviticus a bit. I must have misread something and miscontrued into his lineage having some broader punishment (like being cast out or stigmatized) somehow.
Well, you may not be entirely wrong. In Genesis 49:5-7, Levi and Simeon are cursed to be without land and scattered throughout the Israelites. This is because of what they did in Genesis 34. This is one explanation of why the tribe of Levites has no land. Another explanation is that they have no land because they are set aside for God's service.
The Bible will frequently offer multiple explanations for things. It's good to keep in mind when you're reading it that it's a collection of documents put together by later editors, and so it's not always 100% consistent or coherent.
That's interesting. I'm likely gonna miss out further several stuff for not finishing Genesis (maybe I will feel compelled to some day? good news = my reading preferences change perpetually so maybe...).
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