I wondered when you Benedictines were going to wake up from one of those
extended snoozes to answer this question. I was about to answer it myself,
a Lutheran yet. Good to hear from you Thomas. You can go back to sleep
now.
cs
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Subject: RE: Comments, anyone..., Song of Songs
> Chapter 42 (Silence after Compline), vss 3b and 4 state: "Someone should
> read from the Conferences or the Lives of the Fathers or at any rate
> something else that will benefit the hears, but not the Heptateuch or the
> Books of Kings, because it will not be good for those of weak
understanding
> to hear these writings at that hour; they should be read at other times."
>
> Thomas Sullivan, OSB
>
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> > From: John B. Wickstrom [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 1:26 PM
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> > Subject: Re: Comments, anyone..., Song of Songs
> >
> > Doesn't the Rule of Ben edict also suggest that Kings not be read by the
> > younger monks?
> >
> > Graham Williamson-Mallaghan wrote:
> >
> > > >Watson does not mention any earlier complete excisions.
> > >
> > > The Bowdlerisation of the Song of Songs (and what a great
> > > way to get any healthy adolecent to go off and read the
> > > thing) is reminiscent of Ulfilas' Gothic Bible, of the mid
> > > C4th. Ulfilas entirely left out the Book of Kings, on the
> > > grounds that the Goths already had sufficient experience of
> > > both kings and warfare, and neither were to be encouraged
> > > in peoples becoming a serious danger to the Romans.
> > >
> > > What other examples of late antique and medieval (or later)
> > > Biblical censorship can anyone send into the list?
> > >
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