u/TheGreenAlchemist

Hi, a couple years ago I did a sake omakase, and I wrote down a particular sake I liked the most, but I've lost the list. Could you think of you might be able to identify it?

It was from a funky/unpasteurized sake tasting.

It was like a "half nigori" -- it had some haze, but semi-clear and not thick at all. They said it was an unusual sake that was half way between junmai and nigori.

I *think* it was unpasteurized; it had some very funky flavors at any rate. It was not nearly as sweet as the usual nigori.

I think, in bottles, it was somewhere in the $40-50 range if you bought it at a typical store.

The name was Japanese with no English tag line given. The bottle was green.

Has there ever been any modern novel written in Kana? I don't mean children's books, but rather a book for adults, written in a manner similar to Tales of Genji and other ancient works using Kana, as a literary exercise? Somewhat like how there was a book in English a few decades back that was written without using the letter E, or a book in Hebrew that didn't use a single line break?

I was reading some texts recently and they mentioned this translation. This wikipedia snippet might be considered representative:

>The meaning which the Greek of John 8:44 most naturally conveys is that of the pre-Hieronymian translation "You are from the father of the Devil,"^([2]) and so it is generally understood by Greek Fathers, though in various ways they escape attributing a father to the devil. Hilgenfeld, Volkmar, and DeConick consider that the Evangelist shows that he embraced the opinion of the Valentinians and some earlier Gnostic sects that the father of the devil was the Demiurge or God of the Jews. But this idea was unknown to Heracleon, who here interprets the father of the devil as his essentially evil nature; to which Origen objects that if the devil be evil by the necessity of his nature, he ought rather to be pitied than blamed.

I have seen this claim repeated on this sub as well by various people. If this is what the text is most naturally interpreted as, and was parsed this way by Church Fathers (though they are not specified here), how is it that this seems like lost translation? Did people stop reading it this way at a certain point? I have not found one translation reading it like this, including "literal" translations. Who were the fathers who were reading it this way? What interpretation did they give it, and what did the original composer likely mean?

This seems like a classic case of "trying the same things and expecting a different result". Did they think the other emperors just hadn't got the right formula? Did they not really expect to become immortal and just expected more limited medical benefits, and thought previous attempts had indeed achieved this?

It's well known that Ethiopian Christianity has an unusual canon that includes books common in the early Christian era that went into disuse elsewhere. The Ethiopian Jews also use a Tanakh with many of these same books. What was the direction of influence in this situation, Christianity vs Judaism?

Did Ethiopia already have a notable Jewish population when it first became Christianized, and they simply used the books that were already popular among the pre-Christian Jews there locally?

Or did Ethiopia have few Jews locally, adopted their Christian canon based on what the first Christian missionaries there were using, and then the Ethiopian Jews were established there later and came to adopt the books the early Christians there valued?

Was Ethiopians Judaism well established before Christianity existed?

I was thinking about how in ancient Hebrew people's names are often "x bar y". Was there actually a language that Greeks were exposed to that has a lot of "bar" sounds? When people mock foreign languages today, they usually make some kind of effort to approximate what they sound like to them.

I read a children's book/story as a kid that had a kind of messed up plot. This wild kangaroo in Australia was captured by humans and forced to fight other kangaroos. Eventually he is matched to fight a kangaroo and while they're fighting he realizes he's been fighting his father. After they fight they make some kind of plan and eventually escape.

I think this was in some sort of remedial reading textbook (3rd grade) so it was probably more of a short story/children's book than a novel.

Since it was aimed for 3rd graders, I'm probably exaggerating in my mind how heavy the slavery element was emphasized.

The Talmud also uses Gehenna as an afterlife punishment but it used it to refer to a purgatory with a strict time limit. This doesn't match up with the Christian tradition and it also doesn't line up with the view Josephus attributes to the Pharisees. Was this concept current in 2nd temple times? Did it come about later? If so, when and why?