Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3169/sword/ “The church is not the same thing as the Bible, the Bible has always been the guilt of the church”, the German thinker Bloch said (pp. 9-10). This “guilt”, or to put it another way, the moral thought nurtured by this verse, the passover of creeds and sectarian positions (“thinking means passover”, …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3176/the-bible-as-poetry/ Feng Xiang: “Excerpts of Holy Poems”, Life·Reading·Xinzhi Sanlian Publishing House, 2017. ISBN: 9787108060006. This book extracts fifty representative psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, explaining, commenting and commenting one by one. Among them, forty-one chapters from the Hebrew Bible and twelve chapters from the New Testament are organized into …
Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3158/nine-blessings/ Jesus was crucified and crucified, generally in AD 30. Soon afterward, presumably the disciples began to collect his teachings and deduce his actions. First by word of mouth, then in written form, and gradually, with the rise of a new religion, there were numerous Gospels. The handed down Gospels, no matter the …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3151/patricia-marx-mattress/ Online: Patricia Marx, How to Buy a New Mattress Without a Ph.D. in Chemistry Print: Tossed and Turned. The New Yorker, June 27, 2022, pp. 16-21. New Yorker columnist Patricia Marx The lady’s humorous writing fires just right. Far from being a gag, her articles usually address or discuss a topic in …
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Original link:http://www.ideobook.com/3143/making-history-menand-review/ Louis Menand reviews Richard Cohen’s new book Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (Simon & Schuster, 2022): Web: The People Who Decide What Becomes History Print: Gibbon’s Left Testicle. The New Yorker, April 18, 2022, pp. 63-65. The title of the print edition of the book review, “Yoshimoto’s Left Testicle,” is …
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