Tuesday, 19 June 2007
oops. I passed 1,000 posts without realizing it. This is number 1008.
So I looked up 1008 A.D. and found the Leningrad Codex and also the year of the "The Tale of Genji" about the son of an emperor of Japan.
The tale was a lengthy psycho-drama in which Genji is exiled from court, goes adventuring, then through political intrigue eventually works his way back. There's a lot more that a one sentence summary of a complex set of stories can't relay and the tale is quite a well known in some parts of the world.
Unlike the Leningrad Codex, although the codex is reputedly the most common source of translation for the New Testament.
Posted by rashbre at 10:08