[Magdalen] hissing at Haman

[Jon Egger]

There are several approved bibles for use in West Mo.  The one used most is
the RCL.  One of these days I'll have to call +Field, because I want my
readings done from The Message.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> My whole point in posting about the book was that people were so up in arms
> about the theme that they were posting inflammatory "anti" posts about
> something they a) hadn't read, in most cases, and b) didn't recognize the
> source of. I very much doubt that most of them were even familiar with the
> book of Esther!
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a familiar theme... Plug in any era, movement, politics,
> > sex.... Made me think of Ayn Rand's first novel - We The Living. Set
> during
> > the early years of communist Soviet Union...In the hostile conditions of
> > 1920s Soviet Russia, a young woman struggles to preserve her values --
> > including the man she loves. In pursuit of this goal, she undertakes an
> > affair with an idealistic Communist soldier, and the consequences change
> > all of their lives.
> > L
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Sep 27, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There was an enormous kerfuffle this year among the Romance Writers of
> > American when a book based on the book of Esther but set during WWII was
> > nominated for an award. In the book, a young Jewish woman named Hadassah
> > Benjamin falls in love with a Nazi commandant and saves a substantial
> > number of Jews. A huge e-mail and Facebook campaign against the award
> > ensued, most of the e-mails and posts apparently coming from people who
> > (predictably) had not read the book and didn't know what it was based
> on. I
> > guess it's okay for a respectable Jewish girl to fall in love with (and
> use
> > to save her people) a Persian king but not a Nazi commandant.
> >
> > I'm also betting at least half the complainers were unfamiliar with the
> > book of Esther.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> King Xerxes???  What happened to Ahasuerus!?
> > >> After I wrote that, I found this explanation in a footnote:
> > >>
> > >> Ahasuerus is a Latin-English transcription of the Hebrew form of the
> > > Persian name Kshajarsha, in Gr. Xerxes.
> > >>
> > >> Good grief...!
> > >
> > > All part of what makes the film The Book of Esther so entertaining. :)
> > > (There's actually some good acting in it, among the bad acting. But
> > > it's definitely low-budget. I love what one reviewer said, that it
> > > boasts a cast of tens. LOL).
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott R. Knitter
> > > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> > >
> >
>