Direlda

Hopefully my email was not too late. As a specialist in Knowledge Organization, I'm peeved at how these changes make what should be non-preferred terms in an equivalence relationship into the preferred terms.

19.02.2025 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amplifying. And offering hugs.

18.02.2025 23:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo of an excerpt from page 15 of A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, in the chapter "Beginnings (586 BCE - 135 CE)." The focus is on a paragraph that reads: "In the first decades of the Common Era, Apion, a Greek lawyer in Alexandria, wrote and spoke against Jews. He claimed that they were a 'diseased race of lepers' and a 'godless' people who worshiped the head of an ass in their Temple in Jerusalem. He insisted that once a year, Jews kidnapped a Greek and fattened him up so that he could be sacrificed to their deity. These and other false charges would find their way from Alexandria to Rome and, eventually, into the works of Roman and, later, Christian writers." In the margin next to the paragraph is a line marking the paragraph and written in descending order: ㅠ.ㅠ blood libel x.x

Today I learned that blood libel was pushed by Apion, an Alexandrian Greek, sometime "in the first decades of the Common Era." I hate this. I have a feeling that this book, A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, will be constantly inflaming me to righteous indignation.

14.02.2025 03:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*offers hugs*

10.02.2025 06:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes, I get a question that's easy. Other times, I'm jumping from commentator to commentator to be like, well, this person says this, but this other person says this, this person mostly agrees with the first one, and here are my thoughts.

10.02.2025 00:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As the group facilitator, that thought does cross my mind a lot! Because my method is less lecture and more, "what are your thoughts and comments and questions and parts that confused you" interspersed with commentaries and my own ramblings.

10.02.2025 00:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In June 2023, I started a study looking at all the places where Sodom or Gomorrah were mentioned in the Christian Bible. I don't think I mentioned Jesus outside of the opening prayer while we were in the Hebrew Scriptures portion of the study. Maybe if someone mentioned him first.

10.02.2025 00:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And discovering the Sefaria site and app has helped me immensely. Because they at least have a few resources in English that I can turn to that give a Jewish perspective.

10.02.2025 00:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Some of us focus on the context of the book instead of jumping to "and this is how it's about Jesus." Like, when I lead a study for LGBTQIA+ Christian furries on a book in the Hebrew Scriptures, I hardly bring up Jesus. I want to learn from the text first and foremost.

10.02.2025 00:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not in Hebrew, as I unfortunately do not know the language, but I do read it in English. The book we call Ecclesiastes (Kohelet, I believe) is one of my top three out of all of the Hebrew and Christian books in the Christian scriptures. And I think we should learn from them.

10.02.2025 00:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I finally remembered I'd created an account here.

10.02.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*hugs back*

10.02.2025 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0