man, these guys know how to work a text.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

And they really think we should be encouraged to go look it up.

My friend truepenny turned this up. Check it out:

The Book Of Tobit.

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[sarievenea.livejournal.com]

My roommate and I were hollering about the parallels while it was showing, the "tobit.net" link really gave it away-we have both studied the Aporcypha, though, and so recognized that plot line as being pretty directly taken from the Book of Tobias. I was pretty excited to see that they used a text like that as inspiration. :)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Hee.

Did you see this?

www.tobitnet.com

This show is often like a detective game for lit and comparative religion students....

[sarievenea.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's the link i meant. i pretty much watched it non-stop for the 72 hours between episodes. it tortured me. :)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

You and Reid both. *g*

This is so totally a show by geeks for geeks.

It kills me.

[spike21.livejournal.com]

oh wow! It's pretty reassuring to think of the writers being all research-y.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Huh. I thought I linked to that in one of my comments to you back when Revelations aired. I certainly *meant* to. I found it when I went to look up the angel named Raphael, who appears in that book. I know I said something about that because I found it so freaky. Esp when they did Reid all in soft focus and angelic looking in the scene where he was having his mom committed. Sometimes I wish I knew more about the Apocrypha, then I think growing up Southern Baptist did enough damage and I should leave it alone.

On an entirely unrelated note, I haven't written my 750 novel words today. But I did write 870 words of backstory for one of the important characters. Which is going to change how he interacts with the viewpoint character. Can I count that I wonder? It'll only be in the novel tangentially.

MKK

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I know a bit about the gnostic gospels, but the apocrypha are outside my experience.

(I'd count it.)