tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157363434817623331.post4318123122174315671..comments2023-07-25T08:44:01.667-07:00Comments on DeeTween the Lines: Who Is That? Scribes and PhariseesD.L. Maynardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02677696195857476106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157363434817623331.post-76578415997584890792015-09-15T04:27:55.959-07:002015-09-15T04:27:55.959-07:00Thank you. I am glad you enjoy the "puzzling&...Thank you. I am glad you enjoy the "puzzling" that apparently annoys many people. I was also sorry to lose Ezra. In my original draft of that story, he was one of the narrators, but I reconsidered the decision to tell the story from the point of view of a fictional character (all the other narrators are based on people who really lived). He had a lot of really cool inner thoughts that were never voiced, and I felt like I got to know him well. I wanted readers to see that not ALL Pharisees were bad.D.L. Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02677696195857476106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157363434817623331.post-31698787733018611492015-09-14T21:03:51.919-07:002015-09-14T21:03:51.919-07:00I really enjoyed the Rabbi Ezra and was quite sorr...I really enjoyed the Rabbi Ezra and was quite sorry he died.<br />I also enjoyed puzzling over the biblical equivalents of the characters, with the different spellings to challenge my knowledge of scriptural characters. And the disciples as well, how they were mostly contemporaries, friends and family, fun to see them relating together in (yes, extrabiblical) entirely plausible situations. Labellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779835907920222552noreply@blogger.com