#SayTheirNames

This is one of the books I'm reading

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses Of Civil Rights History 

by Jeanne Theoharis

It's going to take me a while to finish it because I give into the temptation to vet Theoharis's subjects and sources, so I can't give you a comprehensive critique. The point I want to make with this post however can't wait, because this is a movie I bought Wednesday and am watching for the third time today. (It's what I do. I dissect the Historical record (and the Historians) so I can discover the dynamics beneath the story of US)

Hero's Quest or Holy Man's Test? (Part One)

Now the Lord said to Abram,

"Go forth from your country,

And from your relatives

And from your father's house,

To the land which I will show you;

And I will make you a great nation,

And I will bless you,

And make your name great;

And so you shall be a blessing;

And I will bless those who bless you,

And the one who curses you I will curse.

And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him...

Genesis 12:1-4

No actually, I kind of need you to read that again, only slower this time.

The Sons of Terah Through Nahor

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I believe Abram was in his forties when the people of the kingdom of Shinar, where the construction site in Babel was abandoned, were being swallowed up by those they sought to rule.

the Bible math says the Exalted Father was forty-three in 340 PD.