Steven Rodriguez
@smarcorodriguez.bsky.social
reading medieval Hebrew poetry
I may have just impishly sent in an orange and blue colored slide for this Sunday's sermon at the CRC church
omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus aequor, ut volucri vacuo quicquid in orbe patet. “To the brave every land is the homeland, as to fishes the sea, as to birds the whole open space of the empty world.” (Ovid, Fasti I.494, trans. Wiseman)
the crushing anomie of being a dad at an elementary school birthday party
okay this is very interesting: Galinsky notes that as the Augustans carried out their conservative project of reinstating old-fashioned Roman values, simplicitas was not one of them.
If anyone claims that our age is an age lacking in wisdom, he is simply looking in the wrong places
I'm starting Kingsnorth's book with the thesis that the project of "re-enchantment" lacks within itself the resources to fend off a kind of neo-Romantic "spirit of the people" ethnonationalism. So far I think I'm right. Kingsnorth's project strikes me as incredibly dangerous.
don’t hate me (or don’t get too excited) …but I’m starting this book
It's been such a wild ride preparing to watch Nolan's Odyssey. All the outrage before the movie came out slightly inclined me toward it. But the reactions to the actual film are turning me pretty hard against it.
good morning. I am really enjoying this side quest into medieval Hebrew poetry!
hey @poetinbabylon.bsky.social, if hypothetically someone played a piece of instrumental music in a church service that was from Chrono Trigger or Breath of the Wild or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, would you say that it was:
g’morning been wanting to read this one for years, finally dipping into it
@keanuheydari.bsky.social would Barth cheer for Switzerland in the World Cup
Mexican Protestant discourse is its own special kind of Protestant
At my grandma’s 90th birthday party. Tons and tons of Mexicans. Live mariachi band playing
“When Jupiter from his citadel looks out over the whole earth, he has nothing to gaze on but what belongs to Rome." —Ovid, Fasti
Vacation this week! Kicking off vacay by starting my third translation of DDJ
“Dostoevsky neither knows, nor perceives, nor represents the ‘idea in itself’ in the Platonic sense, nor ‘ideal existence’ as phenomenologists understand it." —Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics
People on Twitter are posting their top 10 films. I don't know what mine are but here are my top 10 contemporary biblical scholars: 1. Richard Hays 2. Ellen Davis 3. Robert Alter 4. Dale Allison 5. Joel Marcus 6. Jon Levenson 7. Adele Berlin 8. Craig Keener 9. Walter Brueggemann 10. Carol Newsom
When Ilioneus tells Dido about Aeneas in Aeneid I, he characterizes Aeneas as having 3 of the 4 Augustan virtues: iustitia, pietas, and virtus. Clementia is missing. Can we make something of this, or am I reading too much into it?
Galinsky says that the American "two voices" (public and private) interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid fails because the public and the private were quite blurred in Augustus' Rome.
Finishing the high school Jane Austen reading group with a watch party tonight, watching the 2005 Pride & Prejudice, which I have not seen since a few years after it came out.
Anyone know of a website with a readable English translation of the Augustan leges Juliae?
One of the funnest differences so far in the NJPS is they take a crack at a Hebrew word that NRSV leaves essentially untranslated, so we get “dolphin skins” in the tabernacle.
Trying to read more Jewish sources for this sermon series. I’ve been surprised by how apologetics-heavy the notes have been in this Bible! Every other note polemically contrasts Israelite religion with surrounding parallel beliefs and practices.
I'm not a scientist, but I just read a passage where a theologian mixed metaphors of gravity and magnetism and my reaction was... don't do that. Different fundamental forces!
"What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God." — Pascal, Pensées
I can’t stop thinking about Gary Saul Morson’s ad hominem insinuation that Dostoevsky’s proto-process theology—that God doesn’t know the future in order for humans to be truly free—is linked to Dostoevsky’s gambling addiction