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lethargic_manThis is excellent. First ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
papersky reads a Slacktivist post about a place in the Book of Kings, where, where there is a True Prophet's word set against Other Prophets, the Other Prophets are (for once) not denounced as false prophets, but as intentionally lied to by G-d. This is an astonishing thing theologically, and I am astonished that (a) I missed it when I read the Book of Kings, (b) the Soncino commentary to Kings does not pick up on it, and (c) Josephus elides it.
Thenpapersky posts a poem to her own blog encapsulating her reaction to this; and as a result of the comments people posted is "now terribly tempted to write about a dystopia full of multi-coloured—blue, polka-dot, tiger striped—but irredemiably evil people" who "have God give up and scrap the whole thing" in a fantasy treatment of the Flood.
And now she's actually writing it!
papersky reads a Slacktivist post about a place in the Book of Kings, where, where there is a True Prophet's word set against Other Prophets, the Other Prophets are (for once) not denounced as false prophets, but as intentionally lied to by G-d. This is an astonishing thing theologically, and I am astonished that (a) I missed it when I read the Book of Kings, (b) the Soncino commentary to Kings does not pick up on it, and (c) Josephus elides it.Then
papersky posts a poem to her own blog encapsulating her reaction to this; and as a result of the comments people posted is "now terribly tempted to write about a dystopia full of multi-coloured—blue, polka-dot, tiger striped—but irredemiably evil people" who "have God give up and scrap the whole thing" in a fantasy treatment of the Flood.And now she's actually writing it!
