Surely we are due some credit! We have labored long, we have wept, we have worked our way to exhaustion and back, we have sacrificed leisure, friendships, even love for a most high calling. We asked very little and have only rarely complained. No one knows the price we have paid —and willingly—for the cause. Then [...]
Archive for January, 2010
entitlement and grace: Matthew 20
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
the good neighbor: Proverbs 3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Proverbs, textures on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It can be a violent swing to lurch from, say, Jesus’ apocalyptic words to the this-worldly cadence of the biblical Proverbs. ‘Whoever is not with me is against me … Do not think that I have come to bring peace, but a sword!’ These are the kairos-inflected call to decision that come from Jesus lips, [...]
naming the adversary: Genesis 36
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Genesis, textures on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The norm in the historiography of the other is to write him out of meaningful history. If it is inconvenient to demean one’s adversary—or if doing so requires too much energy—the obvious alternative is to ignore him. So does it become possible to make the too trite claim that history is written by the victor. [...]
valores: Levítico 2.5-6
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
El estudio de Levítico en el siglo veinte no puede ser resumido sin destacar el nombre de Jacob Milgrom. Los escritos magisteriales de Milgrom dan evidencia de una amorosa imersión en la literatura sacerdotal. Este erudito crítico logra mostrar en cada sílaba de su acogedora prosa un profundo respeto por los valores que el libro [...]
alignment: Matthew 11
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
John the Baptist appears in the gospels as one of those existential purists who gives himself to few causes, but with all-consuming energy. Fearless before the people who trek to the Jordan to hear his fiery rants, he is equally fearless before a profligate pseudo-king. John cannot be bought. John gives the lie to cynical [...]
a light burden: Matthew 11
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Jesus whom Matthew presents to us sounds positively Johannine for an instant in Matthew’s eleventh chapter. At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. [...]
el horno: Levítico 2.4-6
Posted in textures, tagged Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica. biblical reflection, texturas, textures on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
El horno reclama su espacio en el mantenimiento del equilibrio entre Israel y su Dios cercano. No puede faltar la participación de manos que saben no quemarse, dedos que han aprendido a ejercer su debida agilidad con fuego y calor que pueden destruir la piel de un ser humano o producir el pan que sustenta [...]
sencillez, participación, equilibrio: Levítico 1.10-13
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
La cantidad de personajes involucradas en la transacción del holocausto es reducida. Resulta ser una operación sencilla y, en el mejor de los casos, íntima. El texto que estipula las acciones requeridas es precisa y exacta, pero deja cierta duda con respecto al sujeto de ciertos verbos de acción. Por ejemplo, parece—pero no sin discutir—que [...]
genealogy redux: Matthew 10
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus’ twelve disciples figure prominently in the construction of an alternative Israel, one in which belonging is a function of allegiance to Jesus himself. They are the new patriarchs, sires of a new nation whose procreative dynamic is not physical but spiritual. The twelve apostles-as-patriarchs-of-New-Israel scheme claims not to supplant the legacy of the age-old [...]
natural, cotidiano y presentado: Levítico 2.1-3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
El sistema sacrificial afirma la importancia de lo creado, lo natural y lo cotidiano. Si alguien presenta al SEÑOR una ofrenda de cereal, ésta será de flor de harina, sobre la cual pondrá aceite e incienso. Cuando YHVH por medio de su agente Moisés establece las formas y las acciones por medio de la cuales [...]
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