I'm having to associate a character with a book, in part for research for character development, and I have choosen the Bible. She is a 25 year old single, psychiatry nurse in the 1940s. She is very religious and I'm trying to come up with a book that would be her "favorite". And/or something she would read to bring her comfort or to draw her away from sin. She is severe, meticulously clean, and people are weary/afraid of her. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
2009-08-27T07:50:04Z
She is a woman "stripped of womanhood". She is a machine to her objectives...to treat the mentally insane in post WWII New Orleans. She's not dealing with a medical background rather she found a profession out of necessity and can do it well based on on how well she can isolate herself from the patients. I'm trying to home in on what keeps her coming back to the hospital as well as what happens to her away from the hospital. Since she has developed for me into a religious person, I need books that compliment that. I like the suggestion of Esther b/c it can create an avenue for her fantasies; a way for her to have these dreams and not feel guilty for them. Please keep coming with the suggestions. I added more detail because you guys responded so well I thought with more detail you would know more from where I'm coming from. Thanks so much...this is great!
?2009-08-27T07:41:52Z
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I'm not sure what you mean by severe. If it helps, this brings me comfort and is why I try not to sin:
John 14:21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
P.S. If she's a bit nutty, and it sounds like that's what you are going for? Perhaps the battle between our natures in Romans?
Romans 7:13-25 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. (14) We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. (15) I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. (16) And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. (17) As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. (18) I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. (19) For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. (20) Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. (21) So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. (22) For in my inner being I delight in God's law; (23) but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. (24) What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? (25) Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Other female heroes are: Ruth. There was a famine. Naomi lost her husband and two sons. She told her daughter-in-laws to go back to their own country. One did. Ruth went back to Israel and eventually found love again.
Deborah found in Judges 4 and 5. She led Israel into a battle and won. This also includes Jael, a woman who drove a tent stake through a commander's temple while he was sleeping.
Rahab, a prostitute that helped Israel's spies escape from being found out and ended up having her family spared when Israel attacked Jericho. Found in Joshua 2
Tobit Judith Additions to Esther expertise of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Baruch Prayer of Azariah and the track of the three Jews Susanna Bel and the Dragon 1 maccabees II Maccabees could be modern-day in Catholic Bibles there are multiple "apocryphal" books, in spite of the undeniable fact that they claimed to be Biblical, they in many circumstances at the instant are not recognized as such. The Pseudepigrapha (or "fake writings") are collections of works claiming to be written by using quite some previous testomony figures. the 1st e book of Enoch is got here across interior the Ethiopian Bible. There are additionally various gospels, epistles, apocalypses, etc. interior the recent testomony Apocrypha. The Shepherd of Hermas, the Didache (or Teachings of the Twelve Apostles), the Epistle of Barnabas, and well-known Clement have been very almost blanketed interior the canon of the recent testomony and had many supporters between the Church Fathers.
The two most brutal books of the bible are Daniel and Ezekiel.
You could always have your character take a fascination with the apocrypha though...those books were removed from the modern acceptance, but are just as if not older than the books canonized in the bible today. They're awfully scary too...:))
If she's a psych nurse, that would mean she might take an interest in the overall function and abnormality of thinking patterns and the human mind, in effect justify her patients' illnesses with angelic lore. The most interesting book of the apocrypha is Enoch...grandfather of Noah...taken on a tour of the heavens and told about the afterlife by a couple of angels...shown a couple three or four wells of souls...and taken away by said angels never to return. Technically, if you look at the ages of the books canonized or not, Enoch was the first man ever mentioned to have been taken up to heaven and never return.
He also delivered a note to God from the fallen angels begging forgiveness for coming to Earth and breeding with the "daughters of men". It goes into great detail about how the angels taught humans to divine the stars...make weapons...wage war...use herbs...and even for women to use makeup. God of course rejects the plea and Samzael, Azazel and the others are all bound, cast into the abyss, buried for eternity, so on and so forth...although Samzael said he would take all of the punishment for marching his legion down to Earth and taking human wives...
Book of Enoch is the way to go! You'll enjoy reading that yourself! It's one of the oldest apocrypha, was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as the Nag Hammadi...predating modern Christian texts by thousands of years.
Esther comes to mind. God is in the background of the story. Yet the Jews are threatened with extinction in Babylon. Esther becomes a princess. And there is a nemesis involved with the attempt to destroy the Jews.
Leviticus, numbers and deuteronomy are full of rules and stuff - they might be good. But of course, there's the book of revelation; that'd be the best idea I think. Most people worry when they read to Book of Revelation because it sounds so harsh and nightmarish...perhaps she could read it constantly and see herself as 'above' other people because her 'goodness' assures her that nothing mentioned in the book will ever affect her??