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[nextian]

Hi, I hope that this is all right, but I just posted an essay about being Jewish and listening to Christian readings of our holy books.

This isn't fannish, but ... this is something I want to say to other Jews, and y'all are the ones I know on the internet. :) Thank you.

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[kassrachel]

Brava times a million. \o/ Gorgeous essay.

Also, from where I sit, this is fannish, actually. *g* The Jewish way of reading texts is a very fannish thing, to me. We read our stories together in community; we argue about them; we nitpick about details, we memorize our favorite parts, we rehash old favorite lines, we spin new stories and hang them on the hooks that the old stories provide. Midrash is very like fanfiction (or: fanfiction is very like midrash.) Being a Jew means -- or at least, can mean -- taking one's place in the community of people who Care About Texts and Talk About Them A Lot and maybe even Write New Ones To Go Alongside the Old, and that right there is basically my definition of fandom, too.

[nextian]

Oh, yes, all of this and more. Thank you so much!

PS Would you mind if I friended you? We keep ending up talking about the whole Jew thang and I seem to agree with you like 99.99% of the time, which ... should be impossible, so, uh, frenz?

[kassrachel]

Please, friend away! It will be lovely to have our spheres intersect more. Since yeah, it does seem like we keep crossing paths, and that's a happy thing.