After a couple weeks break while I moved into my apartment in Saint Paul, the Saturday Book Club reconvened to begin discussing Adrian Johns’ 2023 book, The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America
Well behind on my review of the videos - grateful they’re available as I catch up on the reading!
A tangent on Chris’ discussion of the break between the second temple Jews and Jesus and early Christians, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg in her Life is a Sacred Text ewsletter has been making a case that Jesus as a Jew was a Pharisee, member of Beit Hillel (and how much of the separation comes from the anachronous writings).
It’s not something I’m well informed enough to fully integrate, but may be of interest… it’s in pt2 of this three parter underway: https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/jesus2/
I have to say that I quite like that Substack allows a group of us to be added as "authors" to a post like this which means that we get notifications of comments automatically. This sort of UI/functionality makes it more interesting for a reading group like ours to have/host conversations.
I've felt guilty in the past that often we don't directly discuss the book and what it says, but since we've each individually had our own "conversations with the author", our sessions then become a method of taking those extant (hidden discussions) and bringing them to a group to have not only discussions with each other, but extend those discussions with other books we've read and connecting them with reading, watching, listening we've done with other sources. In some sense, we're creating connections (conversations) with all the other things rather than necessarily discussing the exact thing at hand. This is a different form of work than the work of the initial discussion we individually have with the author (in this case Adrian Johns) and this is something many book groups don't go past.
Well behind on my review of the videos - grateful they’re available as I catch up on the reading!
A tangent on Chris’ discussion of the break between the second temple Jews and Jesus and early Christians, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg in her Life is a Sacred Text ewsletter has been making a case that Jesus as a Jew was a Pharisee, member of Beit Hillel (and how much of the separation comes from the anachronous writings).
It’s not something I’m well informed enough to fully integrate, but may be of interest… it’s in pt2 of this three parter underway: https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/jesus2/
Lime... hmmm, see note added to the chat captured.
I have to say that I quite like that Substack allows a group of us to be added as "authors" to a post like this which means that we get notifications of comments automatically. This sort of UI/functionality makes it more interesting for a reading group like ours to have/host conversations.
And it is good to be back with a 'wide ranging' but focused book too.
But the shared vault, should not be dropped, but even used even more.
I've felt guilty in the past that often we don't directly discuss the book and what it says, but since we've each individually had our own "conversations with the author", our sessions then become a method of taking those extant (hidden discussions) and bringing them to a group to have not only discussions with each other, but extend those discussions with other books we've read and connecting them with reading, watching, listening we've done with other sources. In some sense, we're creating connections (conversations) with all the other things rather than necessarily discussing the exact thing at hand. This is a different form of work than the work of the initial discussion we individually have with the author (in this case Adrian Johns) and this is something many book groups don't go past.
I don't feel so guilty about it anymore...
Guilt is a good motivator... : ))))
And see the forum in the vault
We should add John and Pat, a ghost authors. : ))))
One of the more interesting discussions of OBC books. I think.
@Chris: I agree, I miss the greater contributions in the group Obsidian vault of earlier times. Substack now provides an alternative outlet.
'Us' engineers need to bring a bit more control to these "over" ranging academics. : )))))
👍😂
You were missed... ; )))