"I Know I Don't Really Belong..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

SO to-day I read the apocryphal Biblical text of Joseph and Asenath and you should too because it is awesome and hilarious. And Asenath's cleansing ritual involves being COVERED IN BEEEEEEES, because God is a troll.

It's days like this that I'm really happy to be a religion major.

Comments

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

God is a troll

The Problem of Evil: solved.

[nowgoesquickly.livejournal.com]

^ Likes this

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Pretty good explanation, really.

[talissarocsham.livejournal.com]

You and my old Texts and Traditions teacher at school would have definitely gotten along. He never pointed out anyone being COVERED IN BEEES, but he would digress about the most amusing things that were (sometimes rather loosely) connected to what we were looking at.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I love apocryphal Biblical stuff. If there were ANY. MARKET. WHATSOEVER. for religion professors, that's probably what I'd do.

[talissarocsham.livejournal.com]

Well, it never hurts to keep an eye open for openings just in case! You'd probably be rather awesome.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

It would definitely be fun. XD

[nowgoesquickly.livejournal.com]

And Asenath's cleansing ritual involves being COVERED IN BEEEEEEES

Tell me more.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Basically God's angel is like "go bring me a honeycomb" and even though Asenath knows she has no honeycombs she goes to her room, and LO AND BEHOLD there is one on the bed, so she brings it to him. and he eats some of it, and then he... smears some of it on her mouth? and it turns into bees? and they cover her, and queen bees (except SNOWY WHITE and with RAINBOW WINGS) cover her mouth and possibly sting her but that's not totally clear, and thus she is PURIFIED.

[watchcry.livejournal.com]

.... The only Asenath I know is Asenath Waite and having that understanding of this post makes everything ABOUT A MILLION TIMES BETTER. Well, worse. But better.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I live to serve.

[collectingbees.livejournal.com]

Covered in bees, you say? ;)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Ayup.