Final thoughts

Well, I wasn't as vigilant as I really should have been (I must admit, I hate putting my thoughts and feelings into a public place), but I'll try to sum up some of the thoughts that have been bumping around in my head.

The translation of Moses with a horn. Awesome idea. I even looked up "horned people", and one of the searches came up with a wonderful manga, Elfen Lied, here's a link to it:
http://www.mangavolume.com/elfen-lied/chapter-elfen-lied-1/1
It's a relatively short manga (only 107 chapters, or 6-ish hours of reading) and is very popular. It had been suggested to me by four people before reading it, and since it showed up on Google I reckoned I would take a peek at it. Don't let the cover fool you; it's not porn, it's actually very deep and interesting. And when reading it, remember it's Japanese, so read the panes right-to-left.
The Slave was alright. It wasn't groundbreaking for me, nor did it inspire an epiphany. It did, however, provide several very interesting things to look into. For example, the Talmud, (and the Mishnah and Gemara) Akdamut, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Tishabov, 17th day of Tammuz (these last five are holidays), tying a knot to symbolize an unbreakable pledge, the Kabbalah, the Midrash, Rashi, and matzoth were all new things, and were fun to look up on Wikipedia. I probably learned just as much about religious practices from this book as I did reading the Bible.
Folklore in the Old Testament had a concept that was intriguing as well: ultimogeniture. In ultimogeniture, the last son is the proper heir.This throws a little bit of a spin on several tales: Jacob and Esau, David, Joseph, and more-or-less all the "underdogs" were youngest sons, and were God's chosen. But, according to ultimogeniture, they weren't really underdogs; they were the right choice, the ones that should be chosen. Which makes the interpretation of God - who always seem to choose the most unlikely - seem a little more like a "likely" chooser. Or, he places his bets on the stronger candidates.
Anyway, these are some final thoughts that I felt would be good to share.