tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26591767.post8765950552193688702..comments2023-09-26T08:47:40.942-07:00Comments on CraftLit: A Free Podcast for Busy Book Lovers: Episodes Ninety-three through Ninety-five: Aye Aye Cap'nUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26591767.post-39919280568912929762008-05-14T04:59:00.000-07:002008-05-14T04:59:00.000-07:00I listened to episode 94 last night and Marmee's s...I listened to episode 94 last night and Marmee's speech at the end made me really think how different it is to read this book as a mother vs. as a child. Marmee says this:<BR/><BR/>"Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. Don't be troubled, Meg, poverty seldom daunts a sincere lover. Some of the best and most Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26591767.post-20426573024276968222008-05-06T19:50:00.000-07:002008-05-06T19:50:00.000-07:00Heather,Thank you, thank you, thank you for what y...Heather,<BR/>Thank you, thank you, thank you for what you do. I listen to the podcast religiously and am constantly intrigued by the insights you provide as well as those of my fellow listeners. I read "Little Women" in grade school and then again a couple of years ago. Loved it as a child, found it fussy and saccharine as an adult. Now that I have a better historical context for it, I'm findingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26591767.post-72351361087625061742008-05-02T23:41:00.000-07:002008-05-02T23:41:00.000-07:00Just a few notes from a professional Judaica libra...Just a few notes from a professional Judaica librarian humbly offered with any apologies for errors and pedantry.<BR/>Scholars don't know exactly when Moses lived. My two favorite theories are that Moses is contemporaneous with 1. Akhnaton (15th c. BCE) or, 2. Ramses II (13th c. BCE). Other theories abound. Take your pick. <BR/>Moses is credited in Jewish tradition with leading the "Hebrews" out Liza's Pageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15786484010264472199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26591767.post-89615607904852296742008-05-02T10:39:00.000-07:002008-05-02T10:39:00.000-07:00I can't help you on the 'New Testament' stuff, but...I can't help you on the 'New Testament' stuff, but the Babylonian exile was not undergone by 'pre Moses Hebrews/proto Jews'. Moses and the early Jewish people were well over a millennium before. You might mean that the Talmud was put together during that exile.<BR/><BR/>I hope that helps clear up what was probably a slip of the tongue.<BR/><BR/>Thanks<BR/>KateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26591767.post-19988552664900965142008-05-01T22:23:00.000-07:002008-05-01T22:23:00.000-07:00Re: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I actually read ...Re: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I actually read this in graduate school at Columbia in 1989 or so. It was assigned in an excellent course on the history of children's literature. My previous exposure had been through references to Little Women which my mother explained. The professor told us that before the late 19th c. when the advent of wood based paper (pulp paper, actually) made books Liza's Pageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15786484010264472199noreply@blogger.com