Gabriel, ‘man of God’, has a busy year in the infancy narratives that represent more than any other material the writer Luke’s determination to set in order the jumbled accounts of Jesus’ life. He is twice sent to announce the unusual conception of Jewish boys. The responsive nature of his embassy as much as his [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Gabriel’s expectation: Luke 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
a prostitute’s truth: Joshua 1-3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Joshua, textures on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unlike its pious custodians, biblical narrative that revolves around prostitutes and beggars rarely condemns its protagonists. At times they appear almost to be seers, people who glimpse what scowling passersby miss entirely.
the complexities of unity: Psalm 131
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Psalms, textures on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A young man comes close to swooning at unity’s bliss. It seems a euphoric thing, an unvariegated meeting of minds, the centering of disparate lives around a perfect truth. It is an idea with which he can fall in love, an intoxicating ideal, an abstraction that seems to him worth the whole world.
mixed emotions: Deuteronomy 31-33
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Deuteronomy, textures on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yahweh broods darkly, both in the assessment he delivers to Moses regarding how quickly the nation will decline after its lawgiver’s death and in the song he commissions Moses to write. It is a virtual tour de force of ingratitude. The main point is not complicated: Yahweh did everything for these clueless people. They responded [...]
a most severe mercy: Deuteronomy 28-30
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Deuteronomy, textures on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although the blessings held out to Israel in Moses’ final speeches are heart-warming, the corresponding curses test the mind’s capacity for confronting the white-hot heat of divine anger. The imaginative detail that is bent to articulating the shape of calamity is astonishing. A reader finds himself asking—as Moses was summoning Israel to do in this [...]
another superb standard from Philips Duo: J.S. Bach, Brandenburgische Konzerte Nr. 1-6/die Violinkonzerte (i musici)
Posted in reseña, tagged i musici, J.S. Bach, music, reseña on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While living in Costa Rica, my only convenient place to buy classical CDs was a bookstore that was heavy into the Philips Duo package. As a result, I now own many recordings in this series. Nobody beats Philips Duo for producing affordable recordings of venerable performances at the highest artistic and technical standards. I musici [...]
The alien among us: the company our ethics keep (Deuteronomy 26-27)
Posted in denkschrift, textures, tagged biblical reflection, Deuteronomy, textures on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can tell a lot about a person from the company he keeps. The same is true of ethical prescriptions, especially when they occur in a list like the one in Deuteronomy 27. Each item of the list is followed by the people’s ‘Amen!’, pronounced upon a curse that in turn has been declared over [...]
a neighbor’s dignity: Deuteronomy 23-25
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Deuteronomy, textures on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anglo-Saxons like this writer tend to view law as a given, even as an absolute. Our discussion of controversial issues often begins and ends with reference to the law. One of the many dangers of such a legalistic mindset is the reduction to a code of what in Torah is a far more humane, personalistic, [...]
airplane bliss: Upbeat Audio T613-BMC Boostaroo 3 Channel Amplifier & Splitter
Posted in reseña, two hippos make an island on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I first heard of the Boostaroo at the Indianapolis Brickyard when I desperately needed more volume from my scanner/headphone setup. But my main use comes when I settle back into a long airplane ride with my Sennheisers strapped over my head, my iPod doing what it does, and the added volume of the Boostaroo turning [...]
innocent blood: Deuteronomy 19-21
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Deuteronomy, textures on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Abel’s spilt blood cries out and earns Yahweh’s attention in the early chapters of the book of Genesis. So effectual is this innocent blood’s clamor for justice that its plea become enshrined in Israel’s legal code.
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