I have a new project.... which, if it goes like my others, it will end before it starts. But nevertheless, occasionally I actually pick something up and continue with it for a while.
Anyways, I've thought about dedicating a blog to reviewing, summarizing, critiquing, analyzing, (Another multi-syllable smart sounding "ing" word), (Yet another multi-syllable smart sounding "ing" word), the obligatory etc. (ok... enough of that) of ancient Jewish and Christian literature, ranging from the Church Fathers to the Old Testament Pseudigraphia. I would probably eventually delve into the Nag Hammadi stuff. AND I may even, on occasion, include some more modern stuff (Barth... Barth... Barth.... thats guaranteed to catch the eyes of 50 theo-bloggers), but I mainly want to focus on the literature that helps us to understand the context of the Bible.
I want to do this because it could help others to make sense of the Christian literature. But also, if I actually get going with it, it will motivate me to actually do some more reading, and reading that will be more helpful to my Biblical studies. Theology reading is fun and all (I swear I've enjoyed reading Barth, I swear...) but I would also like to include some stuff that could, y'know, help me in the study of the central source of doctrine in the Church.
So what say ye? And were the multiple sets of parenthesis in only a few small paragraphs distracting?
BTW the new blog, if I do continue it, is located at http://cjlit.blogspot.com/
3 comments:
Hey Owen,
You might be interested in a post I did (and guide I wrote for Amazon) on all Jewish/Christian literature ever written before 100AD. I did a lot of research and discovered that you only need to purchase 10 volumes to have the entire corpus. Check out my post at http://alexlsilva.blogspot.com/2007/04/introduction-goal-of-this-guide-is-to.html
Hey Alex,
Actually, it was that post you did that in a way inspired me. When I realized it wouldn't take a lot of money (relatively speaking of course) to get everything, I began to expand my collection and have read a bit here and there.
Owen,
That's awesome to hear. The reason I got into it was I got so frustrated that there were so many collections and no really good guide out there to what was what. As you're going through your series, if you notice any corrections or improvements that could be made to my guide, let me know.
Thanks,
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