Listening: Die Bibel, 2.47-3.19 (Genesis ch. 33-38).
We got to the beginning of the Joseph story, which is one of J's favorites. On the way there, there is some pretty strange material for a six year old: the rape of Dinah and the revenge of Simeon and Levi, Esau's genealogy, and the story of Judah and Tamar. After the Dinah story J commented that he did not like that Simeon and Levi destroyed Shechem's city. I explained the logic of the vengeance, but also told him that Jacob, too, did not agree with what they did. He laughed at the story of Perez and Zerah, that Zerah stuck his hand out of his mother's tummy, then drew it back in again.
An interesting thing happened this morning. Throughout the car ride and grocery shopping, J kept asking me how to say the following words in English:
Israeliten
der israelische Staat
Juden, jüdisch
Hebräer, hebräisch
I also heard him whispering the word Israeliten to himself over and over. When I asked him why, he at first said he didn't want to talk about it. Then, just as we were arriving home, he said he was going to name his "stuffed animal people" the "people of the Israelites" (Ich will mein Stofftiervolk das Volk der Israeliten nennen).
Very curious! I think this has something to do with the fact that J has always liked to think of his stuffed animals as a community of solidarity transcending the order of nature (the predators and the prey animals are all friends, and all new predator animals have to promise not to do harm to the prey animals). In the bible stories and in my commentaries and explanations, he has understood the people of Israel to be a community of solidarity.
2016
Total audio: 11.54
Total video: 3:11
Total gamplay: 3.30
Age 6.05.20
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