Tanakh Posting

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2 for 2 on people coming to David saying “I just killed your enemy”, only for David to kill them.

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RIP Abner, a real one

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Damn part of David melech’s curse of Joab was that his House “never be without…a male who handles the spindle…” - like a man who does women’s work? Is he cursing them with, among other things, faggotry?

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“My brother Jonathan,

You were most dear to me.

Your love was more wonderful to me

than the love of women.”

[jincorrectquotes]

Shmuel: This is what God needs you to do

Shaul: *does the opposite*

Shmuel:

Shmuel: We’re crowing a new king

Shaul:

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#isamuel

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Finished I Samuel. I feel for Saul - first king of the people, where his power depended on the blessing of God who wasn’t really that into him in the first place. Seems like a hard job…which maybe was the point. God is like “actually, guys, having a king sucks”

Favorite part: when he resurrects the ghost of Samuel who’s like “dude, WHY are you bothering me, I literally already told you what was up when I was alive”

Least favorite part: when Doeg killed all those priests because Saul was jealous and paranoid. Not necessary!!

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Saul commits seppuku???

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David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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David - canonically hot

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Lesson of David and Goliath like that of Nachshon - God is only strong if you believe in him (in that belief strengthens God, in that God demands belief, in that God, through Gods actions in these stories, generates belief - after all, God is the author of the Torah, seeding belief into the technology of the story…)

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Really feeling for Saul - it sucks to be usurped by a younger, hotter guy who’s God’s favorite and better in battle

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David and Jonathan - definitely gay?

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David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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David - canonically hot

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Lesson of David and Goliath like that of Nachshon - God is only strong if you believe in him (in that belief strengthens God, in that God demands belief, in that God, through Gods actions in these stories, generates belief - after all, God is the author of the Torah, seeding belief into the technology of the story…)

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Really feeling for Saul - it sucks to be usurped by a younger, hotter guy who’s God’s favorite and better in battle

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David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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David - canonically hot

[tanachposting]

Lesson of David and Goliath like that of Nachshon - God is only strong if you believe in him (in that belief strengthens God, in that God demands belief, in that God, through Gods actions in these stories, generates belief - after all, God is the author of the Torah, seeding belief into the technology of the story…)

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David and Jonathan - seem canonically gay?

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David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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David - canonically hot

[tanachposting]

Lesson of David and Goliath like that of Nachshon - God is only strong if you believe in him (in that belief strengthens God, in that God demands belief, in that God, through Gods actions in these stories, generates belief - after all, God is the author of the Torah, seeding belief into the technology of the story…)

[tanachposting]

David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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David - canonically hot

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So much biographical background stuff is repeated in Samuel I 17 as Samuel 1 16, def seems like different stand-alone folk tales strapped together. Awesome, honestly.

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David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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David - canonically hot

[tanachposting]

David got the gig at Saul’s entourage because he was good at the lyre which Saul needed to calm down because God sent an “evil spirit” to “terrify” him? Big small-town-musical-theater-kid gets his big break, via divine intervention.

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Under the leaves dreaming about olam haba and then looking shit up on Sepharia

[carfuckerlynch]

hey does anyone have that poem. about the author seeing two boys cuddling on a hotel lobby couch, where he refers to it as something like an island of safe anonymity or smth. its been 5000 years my college boyfriend had it written out and pinned to his wall

[carfuckerlynch]

THANK YOU @witchoflight it is indeed "on traveling together" by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

[lgbtunis-moved]

Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) from around the world

top row (from left to right) Bucharest, Romania (year 1840) / Vidin, Bulgaria (1852) / Isfahan, Iran (1856) 

middle row: Casablanca, Morocco (1919) / Mumbai, India (1911) / Gibraltar (1823)

bottom row: Herat, Afghanistan (1897) / Thessaloniki, Greece (1789) / Bozzolo, Lombardy, Italy (1780)

from the Beinecke rare book & manuscript library - art of the Ketubah