I thought our reading of Judith and then the short discussion we did in class was pretty interesting. I grew up in a Christian home and went to a Christian, but we never did anything with the Apocrypha outside of talking about it here and there. To actually get into it and read it was cool and eye opening. It was also very strange. To have something that sounded, felt, and read like the Bible, but was not part of the canon was kind of weird and disconcerting. I had to kind of take a step back and think of it differently. I wasn't deeply affected by the reading of the tale, but it was strange to see something like that. It would be like if someone wrote a story in the same style and type of Harry Potter, but it wasn't Harry Potter. I enjoyed reading it and it definitely opened my eyes a bit to the Apocrypha. I am not sure I am ready to accept the Apocrypha as fact of attempt to get it into the accepted canon, but I do think I want to read the rest of the Apocrypha.
-Jacob Millay
Jacob,
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. Judith is interesting to read, and it was really popular in the middle ages--go figure. I think it's a great adventure story.