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Nehemiah 12-13
Jul. 6th, 2010 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfpurplemoonThe end of Nehemiah at last, there's a big party and the Jews turn away traders on the Sabbath.
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Nehemiah 10-11
Jul. 5th, 2010 10:14 pmwolfpurplemoonI suppose repetition is necessary to aid learning. But surely anyone who wants to remind themselves of earlier events could just go back and read the earlier chapters. But you know it's those generations of monks who used to waste their time copying this stuff out I feel sorry for.
Nehemiah 8-9
Jul. 4th, 2010 05:00 pmwolfpurplemoonHaving found Moses' book of laws, Ezra reads them out and gets everyone to start following them. Which they dutifully do. And then we need reminding of everything that's happened, again. How much more concise and to the point this book could be if the constant repetition was removed.
Nehemiah 7
Jul. 3rd, 2010 04:27 pmwolfpurplemoonA repeat of a long list of people that was in Ezra, apparently they don't quite match, though I wouldn't bother to compare too closely myself.
Nehemiah 4-6
Jul. 2nd, 2010 09:45 pmwolfpurplemoonNehemiah builds a wall in 52 days, while someone keeps requesting his presence by letter. He can't leave to meet them because he says that then the work will stop, everyone else must be really lazy.
Nehemiah 1-3
Jul. 1st, 2010 09:39 pmwolfpurplemoonNehemiah tells stories about his time working for a king, and lists all the people who had to repair the gates of Jerusalem.
