Speaking of Isaac, we did a lot of skits (see above re: half assed), and at some point, we got to pick what we were doing, and someone got the bright idea to do the sacrifice of Isaac, and went running into the kitchen (next to the room we were in) for a big knife. Good times.
Snerk. In a Passover play, the year I was in kindergarten, I played a frog. Frog is a good part when you're six -- you get to jump all over the stage, and you don't have to remember any lines except "ribbit." I'm trying to remember what they did for some of the gorier plagues in that play, but I can't remember any of it.
of Yael driving a stake through Barak's head.
Ok, now that just sounds like a quote from a David Eddings novel.
Also, I thought Joseph married Mary anyway, even though it seemed like she was pregnant with another man's child, because he believed her that it was the son of God?
That's what I thought. Didn't Joseph try to break off the engagement, and then an angel (Gabriel?) tell Joseph the sitch?
tommy have you SEEN the new "hip" Bible? Some...Nordic type folk made it and it's very too cutting edge.
Ooh, and oh yeah, Esther! Esther FASCINATED me for about 2 months when I was about 9. Esther was freaking hot in my illustrated Child's Bible, and I wanted all her cool clothes and jewelry.
You would have loved Purim. A whole holiday celebrating Esther, where little girls usually dress up like her. Plus, at many synagogues, a carnival where kids can win useless plastic junk!
Thanks for the answers, guys. So, kind of glossed over as little kids, and pick it up somewhere along the way to teenagedom, it seems?
Ooh - a painting!
Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes (1620, oil on canvas, the Uffizi, Florence, Italy)
Who's the chick helping her?
tommy have you SEEN the new "hip" Bible?
Nope. The hippest Bible I've seen is "Good News for Modern Man".
Who's the chick helping her?
Her servant. I don't think she has a name. But that's how you can tell the difference between paintings of Judith and paintings of Yael -- Judith has a servant, and Yael doesn't.
You would have loved Purim. A whole holiday celebrating Esther, where little girls usually dress up like her. Plus, at many synagogues, a carnival where kids can win useless plastic junk!
Jesus, make me Jewish!
Also, linky to cutting-edge New Testament. Too bad it's only NT -- I'm thinking the OT is WAY more chicktastic. [link]
Also, I thought Joseph married Mary anyway, even though it seemed like she was pregnant with another man's child, because he believed her that it was the son of God?
Yeah, he did, but in the Luke (I think) translation we were using it still said "betrothed" as they were getting ready to have the baby.
Another excellent point this priest made was that overnight shepards were probably shady characters, so what must THAT have been like, these random guys showing up in the shed where you've just had a baby??
