This is what you look like when you read anything that isn't the Holy Bible, the Apocrypha, Pilgrim's Progress, The Faerie Queene, Dante's Inferno or anything by C.S. Lewis.
Man looks like he is reading the Holy Bible, that is why I've studied Biblical Greek and Hebrew. A lot easier than the modern forms of these languages, Hebrew helps you learn Arabic and vice-versa, both Semitic languages.
Or anything by Blake, Milton, Melville, Keats or Dostoevsky.
>>23622641A lot of Jewish people themselves do not know Hebrew, some learn it in Hebrew school growing up. Many Christians study the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, particularly clergy, ministers, students of ministry.
>>23622650>Many Christians study the Bible in Hebrewwe know
>>23622636You're a Latino, aren't you?
This guy is not happy
>>23622647If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
>>23622636>accidentally read Purgatorio instead of Inferno>permanently relegated to jewryWhat now?
