Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Abram's generosity

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“Although he inhabits a world of limited resources, Abram acts with generosity, humility, and even self-sacrifice, offering Lot first choice...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Primal disobedience

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“Remarkably, of all the ways that the narrator could have portrayed primal disobedience and sin outside Eden, anger is the one chosen. Genes...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Vacation

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I bet some of you (all two of you!) are wondering about the lack posting here this week. Well, I'm on vacation! Right now, we're in ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Word play

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“Cain’s name is significant for several other reasons as well. First, while Cain’s name initially refers to the gaining, acquisition, and cr...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Formulas and rules

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“Readers who approach Genesis hoping to gain a formula, rule, or paradigm to help them handle anger will be disappointed. However, it is not...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Around the blogs

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Some good stuff the last few days. A good post by Roger Olson on hierarchy and submission Hierarchy is more than an organizational flow char...

Join the conversation

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“Texts provide ethical guidance not only by eliciting conversations with their readers but also by eliciting conversations between their r...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Public service announcement

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Well, I've been waiting for winter to post this, but with it being 45ºF today, I've pretty much given up on winter this year... Wint...
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The first thing after Eden

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“...anger may be too painful a topic to withstand extended reflection as it is encountered in everyday experiences. However, when anger is r...

Ancient Personhood

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“...the ancient notion of personhood was primarily relational—that one defined oneself through the functions and roles one was given in rela...

What really happens in a bookstore at night

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HT: Shelf Awareness
Monday, January 09, 2012

Experience

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“The modernist infatuation with science has deceived many into thinking that, if one knows all the formulas and rules, one can always arrive...

Weather

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We've been having some weird weather here lately. Friday was over 50ºF, and Saturday was in the mid-40s. So, what do you do when it'...
Friday, January 06, 2012

Community

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Black, White, and Gray has post about living in community . Here's the finale, but do read the whole thing—it's very thought-provoki...
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The advantage of knowing Hebrew

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“No reader of Genesis has literally been expelled from the Garden of Eden. No reader has seen firsthand the cherubim and whirling, flaming s...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012

The universals are specific

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“The book of Proverbs, when viewed as a collection, is less about offering readers an enormous set of universal ethical principles than the ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Aristotle, move over!

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“Many interpreters have observed that the Old Testament contains (1) texts that appear morally problematic (such as the ḥērem texts), (2) ...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Polytheism and the elite

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“...for almost all of Egyptian history, the pantheon was multiple, and people understood the world as being a place of many gods. During the...

Anger

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“The prototypical script of anger in the Hebrew Bible needs to be understood not in terms of an American or Japanese model but on its own te...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Why?

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“One can also note that the word למה [LMH] (‘why’) often finds itself in the context of angry speech. There are several reasons. First, angr...