Tribulations Ch3

[farla]

Chapter Three, (Number) Of Beasts, of Tribulations is up.

To me, it seemed natural that the moment it became clear that Rabbi Jewy Jew McJewson was not Jewish, a real rabbi, and did not know Hebrew or Yiddish, anyone who knew such languages would start insulting him in it, just as MSTs of fics involving bad Japanese will often end up insulting the author in Japanese. My knowledge of Hebrew insults is sadly lacking, so they're probably using much harsher language than is appropriate. Maybe they're a bit testy from the whole "superpowered terrorists who say Jesus is messiah have taken over the Western Wall and lit people on fire thing".

Next chapter: Mood whiplash!

Comments

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

Aww, that was fun something terrible. They tell Jewish kids all these counterarguments to use against evangelicals and Jews-for-Jesus Christians, then they drag us away from such people whenever we run into them for "being too mean". It's nice to see a world without such adults.

I'd add to that, or Greek or Aramaic.

[farla.livejournal.com]

^^ Glad you approve. And now indirectly Jewish kids have gotten to bitch out all the readers of the LB category...who will probably take it as indication not to read any further.

...If anyone asks, the bitching is totally just to indicate how godless and unsaved the Jewish boys are. Totally.

(Would random Jewish boys know Greek or Aramaic?)

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

No. They'd have to be Orthodox to speak more than a smidgen of Hebrew and anything other than an insult or food-word in Yiddish. That would only be expect in a scholar... unlike Jewy McJewson.

[psychmoonshadow.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm nowhere near Orthodox, but I'm fairly decent at Yiddish, and my Hebrew is...I can...it's...

...Okay, fine; I only know both languages because I went to Jewish elementary and high school, but they did such a bad job teaching them to us that, despite having known Hebrew longer, I can barely formulate a proper sentence. I went to Israel twice, and both times had almost no idea what was going on around me. The edamacashon system prevails again!

My Yiddish is rusty since I graduated nearly two years ago, but it's much better. I can almost have a conversation with someone speaking German. ^^ My high school is, I believe, the only one in the entire province that still teaches Yiddish, and wouldn't you know it, just this year they cut back on it.


Yay for random rants totally unrelated to the actual topic of the entry. 8D

Also hi, I don't think I've been here before. *shrugs and offers a spicecake*

~Psychic

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

Point. You're right. I forget that there are reformed and conservative day schools because there weren't any in my neighborhood.

And yeah, that seems to happen with Hebrew; even though I technically learned from pre- through high school, I can barely understand anything my friends who take it at college are saying to me and most of that is by guessing.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

...That is pure concentrated awesome.

I'd never known that Mary wasn't called a virgin in the original Hebrew. Does she really say, at the enunciation, something to the effect of, "But how can that be, for Joseph and I are not yet married?" Come to think of it, that might have just been my old children's Bible being particularly egregious, for all I know.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, it's the opposite problem. Christians go on about how definitely positively Jesus was absolutely born of a virgin, and the response is, "Well, that's great for you, but the messiah can't be born of a virgin."

The bit about beholding the young woman/virgin is a completely unrelated and much, much older prophesy that just expresses the typical bit about how things are bad now, and then someone will be born, and he'll make it better. The sentence could be "a child will be born" and it'd express the same sentiment.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. Thanks for clearing that up.