Friday, April 29, 2011

Be holy...

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Today, Boda summarizes the first section of Leviticus based on the four previous observations: What the priestly legislation provided then w...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

The communal effect of sin

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Today's fourth, and final, observation from the first section of Leviticus: Fourth, the need for reparation and restitution in the pries...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Preserving the presence

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Today, we get the third observation from the first section of Leviticus in Boda's A Severe Mercy : Third, the need for purification of t...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The second observation on Leviticus

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We're still camping on page 76 of Boda's A Severe Mercy . Today is the second observation from the first section of Leviticus: Secon...

Ouch

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I don't follow television at all, so I don't even know the individual replying in the video, but I'm sure most of you do. Anyway...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Mitigated Punishment-again

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This week we are going to camp on one page in Boda's A Severe Mercy , page 76. Page 76 is a summary of the first section of Leviticus fr...
Friday, April 22, 2011

I served my time

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OK, a week ago Wednesday, they came for me: And they hauled me away and put cuffs on me and a strange suit of clothes: Because my cell phone...

Good Friday

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It seems appropriate that on Good Friday, there should be a post on the cross. So, perusing the blog world today, I found a very good one, b...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

God is...

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"God is Love, but that same God self-describes with “I am holy.” Yes, I agree — the witness of the Bible is that God is love, but how c...

Forgiveness

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“The nature of סלח [selach], however, is slightly different from the Western conception of forgiveness. Numbers 14 shows that סלח involves n...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Understatement of the decade award...

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Goes to Mark Boda for this statement: “Although most introductory Hebrew students are taught that this latter conjunction [ו, waw] should be...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

What a deal!

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Now through April 30: $10 standard shipping on all international orders That's right: standard shipping on any retail order, of any size...

And the response was...

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After the golden calf incident: “Although the mediator secures forgiveness from Yahweh for the people's rebellion, they do experience m...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Collapse

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No, not the kind of collapse you were thinking. This is far more tragic. “The tragic irony is that, at the heart of the tabernacle legislat...

Some good thoughts from around

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the blogosphere that I read over the weekend. A Place for the God-hungry addresses honesty in preaching “3. Present the opposing view as if ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

The fear of YHWH

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“Israel's experience of the manifest presence of Yahweh in this covenant ceremony in Exodus 19-20 is designed to keep them from sinning...
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Some good thoughts

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from around the Internet: From Roger Olson on the ambiguity of theological categories: ...some people seem to be so allergic to ambiguity ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Sin...

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“The various laws define sin for Israel, with the core Decalogue in Exodus 20 revealing that sin is first and foremost linked to Israel'...

Various garden and related stuff

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Well, we tried the sauerkraut last night. It had fermented for 7 days and we figured it was worth a taste test. I opened the jar (we made it...
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It's real!

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Lots of things are real, but this one is special to me. I attended the University of Chicago back in the 1980s (remember those days?) as a P...
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