RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
October 24, 2018 at 6:18 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2018 at 6:19 am by Belacqua.)
Highly recommended: Volume II of Gerard de Nerval's Women of Cairo.
Nerval invents a character, Adoniram, the master artificer of Solomon's temple and lover of the Queen of Sheba. Adoniram travels to the underworld where he meets Tubal-Cain, son of Cain and inventor of technology. It is a wonderful story about the corrupting influence that tech has had on society, but also on the Promethean greatness of builders and artists.
It's put together from various extra-canonical tales about how Cain invented cities and his descendants gave us the beauty and evil of human creation. Appropriate for a close friend of Baudelaire who actually learned languages in Cairo, travelled to Baghdad back when it was difficult, and eventually went mad on the streets of Paris. My kind of guy.
Nerval invents a character, Adoniram, the master artificer of Solomon's temple and lover of the Queen of Sheba. Adoniram travels to the underworld where he meets Tubal-Cain, son of Cain and inventor of technology. It is a wonderful story about the corrupting influence that tech has had on society, but also on the Promethean greatness of builders and artists.
It's put together from various extra-canonical tales about how Cain invented cities and his descendants gave us the beauty and evil of human creation. Appropriate for a close friend of Baudelaire who actually learned languages in Cairo, travelled to Baghdad back when it was difficult, and eventually went mad on the streets of Paris. My kind of guy.
