Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Up and down the kingship staircase

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The second stage of Saul’s rejection is reached [in 1 Sam 15]. Chapter 13 saw the loss of dynastic status, but Saul remained as king. Althou...
Monday, October 28, 2019

what about divine repentance?

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The irrevocability of Saul’s rejection is the main subject of Moberly’s study [“Does God Change?,” pages 107–43 in Old Testament Theology: R...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Round the 'net

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We were traveling this last week, hence the lack of posts, but I still found time to read a bit. Here are some links I found of interest: R...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Around the 'net

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A few interesting links from the last several days. First, what's the job of a CEO ? The job of an executive is: to define and enforce...

14 years!

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Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of this blog. Granted, this last year or so I've been less than regular at posting, but even so, ...

Who chooses?

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The main difference between sacrifice and ḥerem seems to consist in the question of who designates what should be given to the deity. In t...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

What's going in with Agag?

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Saul brings up the capturing of Agag, but offers no explanation for this curious omission from the ban. The reader is thus left guessing as ...

Around the links

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A quick glance at what I've found interesting in the last few days: First, what is the proper use of Thucydides? Is the "Thucydid...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

A couple of interesting things

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OK, maybe a few, not a couple. Over at Jesus Creed, Mike Glen talks about prayer. Deep prayer. Prayer so deep that it is wordless. Spirit-le...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

The importance of showing hospitality

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He lays wait in the valley, close to the city of Amalek, and approaches the Kenites, urging them—by the sequence of three consecutive imper...

Some Interesting stuff

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A few things I've found interesting in the last couple of days: From Catalyst , "There Are No 'Better' People": Reco...
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Is there forgiveness?

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It seems not—at least not in our culture. A hidden sin from when you were an unruly teenage can jump up at any time and bite, thanks to soci...
Monday, October 07, 2019

And some good news

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I'm starting to link to the posts of others again. So, here's a post by Ted Gossard about lacking nothing : In the topsy-turvy exis...

Read this. And weep.

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I don't care which side of the political mess you are in, you need to read this: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/georg...
Friday, October 04, 2019

Reading the text as is

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I regard this discrepancy between what YHWH would do and what Israel should do a typical characteristic of the mutuality of their relationsh...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Read this!

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Read the latest post by Roger Olson . You owe it to yourself and those you know. And if it doesn't scare you, as he says, you aren't...

Sound like anyone you know?

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Furthermore, because Amalek assaulted the weakest of Israel, he is labeled in Deut 25:18 as one who “does not fear God.” According to Moberl...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Word-play in Numbers 14?

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In Num 14:39–45 the Israelites, despite Moses’s warning, go to Canaan and are attacked by the Amalekites and the Canaanites, who pursue them...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Where are they now?

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This piece by John Fea in the Washington Post is definitely worth reading. Here's a snippet of the last three paragraphs: Like the Old...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Listen to the voice of the words of YHWH...

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In the Hebrew text Samuel says: “and now listen to the voice of the words of YHWH” (1 Sam 15:1).8 This seems to be a peculiar way of constru...