An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster
December 28, 2021
Description
In a suitably festive edition, Tom recounts the biblical story of King Herod's massacre of babies in Jerusalem, and Dominic remembers a rail disaster from 1879 and the hilariously bad poetry it...
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Books Referenced
La Chute (The Fall)
Author: Albert Camus
Context:
Tom mentions that Camus wrote this book, in which Christ allows himself to be crucified out of guilt for not having been one of the innocents. This is referenced as setting up a future episode about Camus.
Gospel of St. Matthew
Author: Anonymous (Biblical)
Context:
Referenced as the only Gospel that tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents, where Herod orders the slaughter of newborn babies in Bethlehem.