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Re: The Brick Testament - Saul and Jonathan Attack
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Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:03:53 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Martin Nilsson wrote:
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Here are some comments, or rather mostly a proof reading report...
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Always appreciated!
Ouch. Math was never my best subject. Fixed now though. I think. Let’s see:
2/3 + 2/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 2.
Maybe the Philistine was just trying to take advantage of an Israelite whose
ability to add fractions is as poor as my own!
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Slaughter of the Philistines
1 Samuel 14:20-21: Hmm, so shall we interpret those funky Philistine
hairpieces as hats or wigs or something...? In any case it’s a pretty funny
detail.
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They are meant to be headdresses of some sort. They are based on some ancient
Egyptian reliefs depicting what are thought to be Philistines:
I don’t think anyone knows whether they incorporate the Philistines’ actual hair
in combination with a fancy headband, or whether it’s just a sort of “hat”
independent of their hair. And of course, we can’t know what color or colors
they were.
For The Brick Testament, at least in the case of these Israelites who were
mercenaries for the Philistines, I guess I’m taking the position that they were
“hats” put on over their actual hair.
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Jonathan Is Cursed
What’s that gray wall in the background of the forest, and why is it there?
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I am using a raised
baseplate there. I guess I envisioned the gray as rock covered by some green
vegetation. I didn’t think it was particularly out of place for a forest.
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War
on All Sides
The headline in the story itself says “Slaughter of the Ammonites”.
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Whoops. Fixed now.
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Kings of Zobah: that’s a funny little extremely literal interpretation there.
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I suppose. Though I imagine it wasn’t so uncommon for the actual kings to be
fighting amongst their own troops in those times, just as I depict Saul on the
front lines of these battles. I was originally going to just have two kings and
two or three non-king troops with them, but yeah, I thought it was sort of funny
to show a bunch of crowned warriors grouped together in combat. :)
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I found another little error elsewhere in the BT:
In the Judges story “Slaughter of the Ammonites” (not to be confused with the
homonymic Saul story)
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Actually, in Judges it’s
Massacre of the Ammonites and in King Saul it’s
Slaughter of the Ammonites. The distinction I draw is that I’ll use
“slaughter” to described a extremely severe military defeat where there are very
great losses on one side and apparently few or none on the other, and “massacre”
when civilians, women, and children are killed in significant number (whether or
not in addition to a military slaughter).
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there is a scene which says “But the king of the
Ammorites didn’t listen...” You have misspelled Ammonites there as
“Ammorites”, which makes it a bit confusing since it’s in the story where the
king of the Ammonites has ben bad to the Israelites who lived in the land of
the Amorites, and this Ammonite king accuses the Israelites of taking his
land, but they answer that they didn’t take the land of the Ammonites but the
land of the Amorites. It seems that the verse number is wrong too; it should
be Judges 11:28.
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Wow, thanks for that one! I knew I’d confuse the Amorites and Ammonites when it
counts. Corrected now.
Thanks very much for these!
-Brendan
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| Not only (...) Not only are you an outstanding artist; you are also quite humble in your response to criticism. I don't know that I could have answered that post without a touch of cynicism. I had thought at one time your minifig interpretation of (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| Here are some comments, or rather mostly a proof reading report... (URL) Try to Keep Weapons Out of Hands of Israelites> Uhm, you should do a control count on that math exercise about thirds of shekels... (URL) of the Philistines> 1 Samuel 14:20-21: (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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