/lit/ - Literature

>>4753199
I'm also looking for some top-tier Old Testament commentaries if anyone has some recommendations.

>>4753201

that completely indifferent holocaust in your picture seems like an old testament commentary

>>4753199
Mistake. Different writers, different periods of time. Bible is full of them.

And the Talmud is the go to Jewish "wtf do we make of this" interpretation.

>>4753218
Ant detected

OP check out James L. Kugel's Traditions of the Bible, I used it as a reference for many exegetical papers.

>>4753199
I think you shouldn't post guro on a burichan board.

>>4753199
imagine aliens doing this to earth, or something equivalent

Slight problem OP, the Israelites never worked on the house of god. That was the hivites, perizzites, Hittites, and those pesky Jebusites.

I haven't read them so i don't know if there's a contradiction.

Historically, though, the Cedars part is probably true, or at least it would be if any of it is true. Egypt/Israel/Palestine have been short of timber thousands of years, and Lebanon was always the go-to for wood. The Egyptians were always doing the same thing: trading fantastic sums of money for Lebanese cedar.

I don't think there would have period during the writing of the biblical cannon in which anyone would have simply assumed lumber for a big construction project would have been available in Israel.

Also the exodus never happened.

I had thought that part of the point was that Solomon had something resembling an empire, and the temple was made out of material from the outer reaches of that empire, and as a result it was a monument that embodied that supposedly far reaching empire, to demonstrate that all under heaven was subject to him.

>>4753254
I think they would probably catch some of us and put in a room to see how we would react rather than caring about were we live.

>tfw people other than you thought 'poor ants'

>Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality

>>4754200
You are now aware those guys have a business making aluminum castings of ant colonies and people regularly pay them for the memorabilia of an ant holocaust.

Anthnic cleansings, as it were.

>>4754219
Kinda like that summer when you went to Thailand to rape children, and you slipped across the border to Kampuchea, and you stole a skull. You got it back into the United States because you're white, male, and presentable—the same reason why you get away with international travel for the purposes of child rape. And it stares back at you from behind your LCD. And its eyes are more humane.

>>4754279
indiana jones, right?

>think of the poor, poor ants

How much of a faggot can one be?

is it so hot vapour is coming out of it? holy shit. burned alive. that is not a pleasant way to go
RIP in peace ants. all for some dumbass to take a pic and show it off on the internet

>>4754424
>is liquid metal hot, guys?

>>4754424
The vapor is from moisture in the soil and presumably ant bodies sublimating instantly.

>>4754279
It's nothing like that time. Those boys were joyful and willing and our love was a beautiful thing. The skull is a simple memento mori and I don't know what you're driving at. Stop triggering me.