Alan,
Thanks for your continued interest in these! The theme of Jesus being a
Jew comes up again later on.
Edward
On 05/04/2019 15:29, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
Love this! Especially the end. I wish more people would remember Jesus
(Christ??!!!) was a Jew.
Then three's this - NATHAN: I don't know much about God, David, any
more than you do, but I don't think he's generally impressed by
melodramatic displays of self-abasement.
and what's astonishing is the manner in which self-abasement goes hand
in hand w/ furious and brutal power world-wide. O, thinking of
sacrifice or those leaders now, on the verge of being deposed, calling
elections illegal or fraudulent or fake, whatever. As if one couldn't
possibly step down, as if the commons didn't exist, etc. etc. There's
something in our primate skulls that not only seeks power but holds
onto it at all cost, no matter the results. I keep thinking of Syria
but I don't have to look any farther than gerrymandering here or the
increased battle against women's rights, or the rights of people of
color, or the rights of people to believe whatever they want, the
rights at this point of just about everyone except straight white
males - and to what end? Who's getting hurt? Rationality has nothing
to do with it. I keep thinking as well of billionaires who never have
enough money, etc. What do they think they need when they get up in
the morning? That they don't have? I know too well how naive these
questions are, but there's something nagging at the core of them. -
Alan, mulling over your text. So much of the OT is just about how most
people behave when they have a few weapons and the chance. Not so
different in the NT, but the tone's different. That was forgot within
a century or so. Then we Jews were caught out. Where I grew up in
Wilkes-Barre, PA, they continued to be caught out in my lifetime.
Self-abasement's a wonderful source of power. -
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:56 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
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Dear all,
'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of
view of
a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't
believe in
God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
There are fourteen of these plays, and the eighth is now online:
'David
and Bathsheba'.
http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/08davidandbathsheba.html (or for the
full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)
Edward Picot (http://edwardpicot.com)
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