What Is This Book?

[chiqui]

I believe that you are thinking of Exodus 33 & 34. Moses asks God to know His ways, and to find favor in His sight. Moses also asks for Israel to find favor with God, and that Israel may not be sent to Canaan without God's presence. Moses asks to see the glory of God.

God assures Moses on the latter counts, and they are said in some translations to communicate "face to face." This doesn't mean a literal seeing of God's face, but an intimate form of communication.

Eventually, God does allow Moses to see His glory in part (to know His ways). There is no literal face or backside, it is an anthropomorphic description of God allowing Moses to see that aspect of God which Moses can withstand. Many would say that God shows Moses His all encompassing love and power while shrouding His severity. It isn't a literal glimpse of a physical backside, it is a Spiritual glimpse of a less revealing part of God. When you look into someone's face and eyes, you receive much more of an impression of who the totality of who they are.

Some would say that no one could look upon the face of God (to see Him fully) without being destroyed. Others would say that to look upon the face of God would so radically change Moses that he would no longer serve the purpose God planned for him to lead the Israelites.

I like my version better... it's more dramatic, less cerebral.

I went to a Catholic school where one of the classes was always religion, and I swear the way the nun told the story it sounded like my version. Of course, she might have been telling it in a way that small children would understand.

[kateln]

Nov 3, 2017 15:05:35 GMT -4 chiqui said:

I believe that you are thinking of Exodus 33 & 34. Moses asks God to know His ways, and to find favor in His sight. Moses also asks for Israel to find favor with God, and that Israel may not be sent to Canaan without God's presence. Moses asks to see the glory of God.

God assures Moses on the latter counts, and they are said in some translations to communicate "face to face." This doesn't mean a literal seeing of God's face, but an intimate form of communication.

Eventually, God does allow Moses to see His glory in part (to know His ways). There is no literal face or backside, it is an anthropomorphic description of God allowing Moses to see that aspect of God which Moses can withstand. Many would say that God shows Moses His all encompassing love and power while shrouding His severity. It isn't a literal glimpse of a physical backside, it is a Spiritual glimpse of a less revealing part of God. When you look into someone's face and eyes, you receive much more of an impression of who the totality of who they are.

Some would say that no one could look upon the face of God (to see Him fully) without being destroyed. Others would say that to look upon the face of God would so radically change Moses that he would no longer serve the purpose God planned for him to lead the Israelites.

I like my version better... it's more dramatic, less cerebral.

I went to a Catholic school where one of the classes was always religion, and I swear the way the nun told the story it sounded like my version. Of course, she might have been telling it in a way that small children would understand.

I believe Christopher Moore used your version for when Biff tells it in "Lamb".

[Deleted]

This might be a long shot, because I remember very few details of this book. I remember reading a sci-fi book, probably in the early to mid 90s. The main character was a boy, maybe 12 or 13. I feel like his name might have been Corey or something similar. He lived in a small town, and there was some kind of sinister/underground type of monster that the grown ups weren't aware of, though at some point his father did some kind of battle with it. It wasn't a Stephen King book, though probably similar to them. It's been years, but for some reason it popped into my head the other day. I'd be curious to re-read it, if I could track down the title or author.

[PearlySweetcake]

Help! I've blanked on the title of a children's/YA book from about 40-50 years ago. It's about a couple who have a baby girl, and name her after a rich aunt, named Hortense or Heloise or some such. The couple is mortified when the child turns out beastly, and they conspire to hide her from the aunt, who incidentally is identical to the child in features and temperament. There is also a pet lion (I think) that is called 'Orrible Hugly. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

ETA: Found it! It's called "Horrible Hepzibah" by Edna Mitchell Preston. Woo hoo!

[ladyboy]

A friend asked me this and I can't figure it out:
A book written by a woman, about a teenage/college age daughter with a professor father. Some sort of mystery and the book had equations/journal entries printed within.


Anyone?

[chonies]

Jun 23, 2019 20:24:13 GMT -4 ladyboy said:

A friend asked me this and I can't figure it out:
A book written by a woman, about a teenage/college age daughter with a professor father. Some sort of mystery and the book had equations/journal entries printed within.


Anyone?

Any idea how long ago your friend read it? This one came out recently: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.

[ladyboy]

She said around 10 years ago, but I feel with the way tone and memory works it could be anywhere from 5-20

[clarissamaebean]

Could it be “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”? The protagonist is a student at a private school and her father a college professor. Here is a link (which surely will contain spoilers, as it is Wikipedia).

I enjoyed it until about 3/4 of the way through. Then it seemed as if the author ran out of ideas and just ... threw words at the page until they stuck to wrap up the story.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Topics_in_Calamity_Physics

[ladyboy]

That's it! Thank you! I had actually come across that but didn't see any equations inside it so thought it wasn't it. But she just said yes it is!

[Deleted]

Here's one: it was published probably around 10 years ago. Non fiction. The author found some old letters that her grandmother had written as a young woman in the early 1900s, maybe the 20s, when she and her best friend decided to go West and teach in a small school in a pioneer type town. They came from wealthy or at least comfortable backgrounds, but had an adventurous streak. They taught the year through, had some romantic escapades, then came home and got married. IIRC, her friend married a man they met while traveling on the train to this small town.
Anyway, the author was totally intrigued by the letters, did some sleuthing, traveled to this town (probably in the 90s), met some people who had known her grandmother, etc. I think she met the widow of a man who had proposed to her grandmother, or a similar situation. Anyway, she took all the info and wrote it into a book. It popped into my head recently, and I'd love to track it down and reread it.