Of revelry I said It's mad
Jan. 8th, 2009 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberSomeday I'm going to squee about Ecclesiastes at length (I love that book of the Bible SO MUCH), but anyway, I tend to judge Bibles by their translation of it. (RSV FTW!) So, unpacking a box tonight I come across the Tanakh, "the new Jewish Publication Society translation according to the traditional Hebrew text", which I got for a basic writing course in college that used the Bible as the base text, taught by this very enthusiastic grad student who was so delighted to tell us all about how cherubim were crazy six-eyed winged snakes, where I wrote a couple-page weekly paper once about how it does us no good to not be introduced to the earthy juicy stuff in the Bible like (I believe it was) Sennacherib's ambassador yelling up at the Judeans that they should damn well surrender Jerusalem because they were surrounded and their situation was hopeless and they'd soon be eating dung and drinking their own piss...
Right, so, anyway, I flip over to Ecclesiastes and start reading. They name the Preacher Koheleth... Interesting! And then I get to Ecc 2:1. "I said to myself, 'Come, I will treat you to merriment. Taste mirth!'"
Bwa! You know where that construction leads! It leads to a guy with a prayer shawl and a chain gun full of dildoes and mini boozes. He kicks down the door, busting it open to reveal that its hollow core is filled with candy! "Taste mirth!" he cries, spraying the room Splut Splut Splut Splut Splut!!
"That too, I found, was futile."
Hee hee hee hee.
Right, so, anyway, I flip over to Ecclesiastes and start reading. They name the Preacher Koheleth... Interesting! And then I get to Ecc 2:1. "I said to myself, 'Come, I will treat you to merriment. Taste mirth!'"
Bwa! You know where that construction leads! It leads to a guy with a prayer shawl and a chain gun full of dildoes and mini boozes. He kicks down the door, busting it open to reveal that its hollow core is filled with candy! "Taste mirth!" he cries, spraying the room Splut Splut Splut Splut Splut!!
"That too, I found, was futile."
Hee hee hee hee.
Kohelet...
Date: 2009-01-09 07:10 am (UTC)We traditionally read the whole book (in Hebrew) as part of a holiday connected with Sukkot (harvest-time festival, literally "shelters" or "booths"), which is called Shemini Atzeret.
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