Posted on 09/13/2022 11:48:42 AM PDT by MplsSteve
It's been a number of years since I last posted this and recently decided to start doing this again.
As you know, I regard most Freepers to be very well-read individuals. I like to know what people are currently reading. it can be anything - a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a magazine you picked up at the grocery store, etc.
Please do not ruin this thread by posting "I'm reading This Thread". It's not that funny. Seriously.
I'll start...
I'm reading "Gettysburg: the Second Day" by harry W Pfanz. It's a deep book covering in extensive detail - yes you guessed it, the second day of the battle of Gettysburg. I just finished "Gettysburg: The First Day". I would not recommend either book for anyone looking for a good initial read on this battle but others may like it.
Well, what are you reading now?
‘The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human’ by Naomi Wolf. Very readable and packed full of “we’ve been had” explanations.
‘The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Everything, I mean, everything is backed by citations/footnotes. Infuriating read.
I liked the description he had between clear air in San Diego and all the smoke which hung over LA. That smog was even before umpty four million people with umpty six million cars took over.
Do you have a source for that...or just an opinion?
Have you seen my commercial?
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excellent!!!
Just finished “Operation Pineapple Express” about the efforts of former and some current military to get Afghan Special Forces and their families out during the final desperate days there. Both inspiring and absolutely infuriating (where the US government is concerned).
Just started “Prisoners of the Castle” about the Colditz prison in WWII. Includes material from Germans, enlisted prisoners, as well as the “central players” of British officers. So far the story is much deeper that the “heroic” accounts made into books and movies.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of Bosch books
Saw someone mention the book “Declare.” I really liked that.
I am currently reading a short story college anthology I picked up from a free box!!
I guess I don’t have to wonder about your screen name anymore.
They did a great job.
My Uncle landscaped his home on the Eastern Shore. Only took him 6 years to get him to pay up.
yes they did, the publishing house, yes?
I signed my name after his and John Paul 11 in a log for world leaders.He lived next door. Very humbling.
The Tudors by G. J. Meyer
“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” by Matthew Bracken.
Matthew was a Levite the Scriptures tell us, which really made him an outcast, because he is supposed to be a priest, not a tax collector for her Romans.
Now as for the rest we don't know. However we do know Paul was Benjaminite. Although he was not one of the original disciples, but was one by decree of Christ personally choosing him on his trip to Damascus.
As for the many tribes that would still be recognizable at that time, only those of the tribes of Benjamin, Judah, and Levi would be traceable, since all the other tribes were taken away by the Northern kingdom and lost any trace of their genealogy.
There are those who claim the Reubanites and the Simeonites were melted into Judah like Benjamin was before the captivity, and the Livites obviously were the priests, they all pretty much Joined Judah when the kingdom split during the reign of Solomon's son Rehoboam
We do know from Jewish writings that many of those from the lost tribes did eventually return and became adopted into the tribe of Judah and hence became Jews themselves, but as I said, they could lay no legal claim to any other tribe because all genealogical records were destroyed when Assyria took the all captive and dispersed most them, or sold them into slavery around the then known World.
Now there are those who remained in the Northern kingdom area, but through the years they either joined the Jews, or intermarried like some Jews did that were left behind after Babylon took away the Southern kingdom. They intermarried with those Babylon and Assyria moved in from other parts of the the known World, and became the Samaritans of Jesus day. Like the woman at the well. She was an ancestor of Jacob, but knew not from what tribe, thus she was a Samaritan, whom the Jews would have nothing to do with.
I hope that helps.
Romans Chapter 8
I’ve been here 30 years and it’s only been wet enough to produce major shrooms maybe 3 times.
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