i cannot handle the presbyterian energy of this post

oh, okay! I will go back and reinterpret your tweet accordingly! a

ohhhhhh that was low

Type of guy whose primary reason for reading Aquinas is for the Dante references (also me)

So happy to provoke meditation! 😆

is that a threat

When seen from this perspective, the OT serves up a rather large spectrum of rival teleologies, all the way from the violent bloodbath of Esther's ending, through the apocalypticism of Daniel, the radical skepticism of Qohelet, to the near-utopian vision of Song of Songs.

That is to say, the "end" envisioned by Ezra/Nehemiah actually stands in quite a bit of tension with the alternative teleologies presented by, say, Ecclesiastes, Second Isaiah, Daniel, and my personal fave, Song of Songs.

A literalist/fundamentalist reading of the Bible will prioritize the "historical" (narrative) ending of the Old Testament—Ezra, Nehemiah, and the narrative behind Malachi.

But if one takes a more polyphonic view of the canon, then we are faced with rival possible endings of the Old Testament.

This tweet gives me that lost rush I used to feel from movie trailers

The long-term goal is to be able to play some of the woodwinds parts that I score!