Jeremy Thompson Catholic PhD in Biblical Languages, Programmer, Runner

I was annotating Leviticus today, and the meaning of 17:7 was readily apparent. Once you understand that Joel in his multiple personalities = the goat demons, you are on your way to understanding the text:

So they (people who have recently bought a book on mimetic criticism and the Gospel of Mark) shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices (this refers to the sacrifice of their intellect – see below) to goat demons (Joel L. Watts in his multiple personalities), after whom they whore (their whoredom consists of their sacrificing their intellects to the goat demons – Joel – by reading about Greek and mimes). This shall be a statute forever for them (said consumers) throughout their generations (the lifetime of Jeremy Thompson). Leviticus 17:7 pesher

In all seriousness, a belated congratulations to Joel on the publication of his new book!  I look forward to a trip with he and our respective families on his new yacht that he will buy with the proceeds.

Today’s New Testament lectionary reading should look familiar.  That’s because it is made up of the lectionary readings from 12/17 and 12/18.  As I noticed that, it made me think of just how little Christmas material there is to choose from when developing the lectionary for this season.  There’s none in Mark or John.  And, Matthew and Luke don’t spend that much time on it either.  And, I guess unless they want to break the readings down into smaller parts, this is the result.