Which book of the Old Testament is your favourite?

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Khalid said:
You’re kidding me? You mean I was reading an Arabic **TRANSLATION ** of Rumi? I thought it was original Arabic, it was so excellent. I can’t read Farsi.
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He is one of the great Persian poets. Only Hafez is held in higher esteem (though my Farsi-speaking friends tell me that Hafez is much harder to translate).
 
Ecclesiasticus is one of my favourite books of the Old/Ancient Testament.
 
Khalid said:
I don’t get all of the Canticle-loving - I personally can’t stand nor understand the book (and I’ve read the allegorizing commentaries too, but the book is still jarring to me - I skip it when I read the Bible, although I’m working up the courage to maybe read it again on this read-through, as I just cycled back to Genesis). It’s a faith-shaking book for me.

When I was investigating Christianity, one of the main attractions to the Mormons was the fact that they consider it apocryphal.

However, I bow to the wisdom of the ages and of the Church in unanimously assenting to its canonicity - there must be something of value and truth, some redeeming quality in there, and it is only I who am too unspiritual, carnal, unfaithful and unlearned to see it. That witness is strengthened by this very thread, where a dozen distinct men have testified that they receive benefit from it (assuming good faith that it is spiritual benefit).
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I’m begainning to think many of the canticals were interiorly spoken between the Blessed Virgin Mary and Her newly born Son.
 
Daniel is fantastic but if it is only one… I have to say Psalms.
 
Splagchnizomai said:
He is one of the great Persian poets. Only Hafez is held in higher esteem (though my Farsi-speaking friends tell me that Hafez is much harder to translate).
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I suppose I thought it was Arabic as well, because the Arabs love to claim him as their own (or at least not correct misconceptions about it: and Egyptians aren’t even truly Arabs, but they seem to have identified with the Arab cause in the last 30 years), and the translation was in to extremely archaic classical Arabic. No book is ever translated in to classical Arabic. But, there are only about 30 new books translated in to Arabic every year (five times less than are translated in to Greek, and Greece is what, 8 million, compared to 350 million Arabs?), so there’s a good chance the translation of Rumi is so old that it was translated when archaic classical Arabic was still used when writing literature instead of MSA.

I checked my copy, nowhere does it claim it is not the original, nowhere does it say it is a translation or name a translator, it’s just “The Roman [al-Rumi]: The Book of Writings of Jalal al Din Muhammad Balkhi the Roman”, printed 1997.
 
Someone should make a poll of the books that got the most votes. This would be interesting.
 
For me, it is the Book of Exodus, which has much sentimental value. When I was young, my father used to tell me and two sisters and brother numerous stories from the Bible from his own lips. Exodus, by far, was the one he told the most. The only problem is that he would end it after the parting of the Red Sea.
 
COPLAND_3 said:
Jonah and Daniel. I love Jonah because I have studied it greatly, and I love Daniel because it is the first book of the Bible that I studied (not just read). I have put together commentaries on those books for the Aquinas Study Bible.
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Jonah 👍

He is just so very angry, all the way through, and so very human for being that way.
 
Ecclesiastes.

I think it provides the often overlooked intellectual and philosophical framework against which all the teachings of Christ must be understood.

The first lessons of life and the foundation of all true wisdom: “All is vanity”…
 
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