The Ointment Has Come

Of course the title "Christ" (christos), the literal translation of the Hebrew "messiah" (mešiaḥ), would be unintelligible to an ordinary Greek speaker, for whom the everyday meaning of the word was "ointment."

From Wayne A. Meeks, The First Urban Christians.

It's just a normal Sunday night here; Stephen is on the couch doing his reading, from whence the above quote, and I've just devoured Gurney's Some Aspects of Hittite Religion. Snape is being intermittently sociable. All this while forming a Facebook group dedicated to the ritually correct preparation of oatmeal with Teddy Grahams, a creation which was [as far as we know] first eaten here tonight.