Some time ago now, I managed to collect some thirty-one books that Fisher Library was simply giving away. This was in two trips, the first of which saw me taking twenty-seven. When I pointed that out to my supervisor, he informed me that there are twenty-seven books within the New Testament corpus.
I am presently staying at a friend’s house for a few weeks while he and his wife are overseas and, despite the fact that I have since added more books through both loan and purchase, I originally came here with twenty-four. A teacher of mine just reminded me that there are twenty-four books (depending on how one counts them, of course) within the corpus of the Hebrew Bible.
I can’t help being holy.
I think it’s time that that Pesach favourite “echad mi yodea” was extended to “twenty-seven, the number of books in the New Testament corpus”. It’s good to know that on the way there, we’d have twenty-four covered, too. Are you staying at S&N’s?
Well all I can say is in 5 days you will be back home for Pesach and there are five books in the Torah……so it goes on
Hooray, my mum has commented on my blog!!
And Daniel, yes: I am indeed staying at Nat’s and Sean’s place. Or is that “Nat and Sean’s place”? I never could tell whether you were supposed to place the apostrophe after only one of them, or after both…
At least I make an effort and make a comment!!
By the way, I think you were beaten to the beatification. There is a suburb of Jerusalem called “San Simon”, which I imagine is named after an earlier “Saint Simon”. Sorry.
Hehe, “beaten to the beatification”. That just came out. If only I wrote poetry …