Sanctity is tricky matter. On the one hand, the summons to ‘be holy as YHWH is holy’ resounds from the earliest pages of Torah or ‘the five books of Moses’. Holiness is among the most condensed and potent ways of abbreviating the nature of the people whom YHWH has called into his confidence. On the [...]
Archive for January, 2010
best friends: Matthew 9
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wisdom’s limits: Proverbs 3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Proverbs, textures on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is not difficult to understand why the biblical compendium of sayings that we call The Proverbs has been considered a most secular book among its overtly religious compeers. The collection’s logic pivots upon the human capacity to be sensible. It presumes that people will make proper calculations about behaviors and their presumed outcomes in [...]
en su lugar: Levítico 1.1-9
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
El código levítico establece una transacción que es vital para que el Israelita y su familia convivan con un Dios exigente. Reconocemos esta lógica en la legislación sobre el holocausto. El animal que el ofrendador presenta se recibe en lugar de la persona que toma la iniciativa de realizar un holocausto. Aunque parezca rudimentaria la [...]
mixed motives: Genesis 21
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Genesis, textures on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The unselfconscious cackles of the gratefully redeemed become all too suddenly the sullen scheming of unhealed hearts. When YHWH had done the impossible by bringing a child from the desiccated womb of an elderly woman whose dubious heart was at least as resistant to reproduction as her nether parts, she surrendered her practiced enmity towards [...]
la solución: Isaías 1.17-19
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Isaías, Isaiah, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ante el terrible rechazo del culto de parte de YHVH, este capítulo introductorio ofrece una exhortación que pretende abrir camino a una situación diferente. Los lineamientos del primer capítulo de Isaías merecen ser tomados en cuenta como un mapa conceptual que orientará el lector en su encuentro con el libro entero.
diferencia e igualdad: Levítico 1.10-13
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Aunque la legislación mosáica milita en contra de las grandes diferencias económicas que caracterizan nuestras sociedades modernas, el sistema sacrificial a la vez demuestra un realismo económico. El primer capítulo de Levítico traza los lineamientos de la acción ritual de presentar holocaustos delante de YHVH en la llamada ‘Tienda de Reunión’. Nuestra biblia hebrea se [...]
beginning in fear: Proverbs 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Proverbs, textures on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On a week of beginnings, it is easy to imagine that the requisite strength and intelligence for forging a differing kind of year lie within. They do not. To hear the proverbial summons to turn outside oneself in search of these qualities is not for a moment to demean the accrued courage and discernment that [...]
el aborrecer lo presentado: Isaías 1.10-17
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Isaías, Isaiah, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Al poner la mano a la tarea de escribir sobre un pasaje violentamente anti-cúltico en este primer día del 2010, uno se enfrenta con un dilemma: hace minutos le puse un punto final a una breve reflexión sobre los primeros versos del libro bíblico de Levítico. El mencionado libro del Pentateuco—los llamados ‘cinco libros de [...]
aceptable, grato: Levítico 1.1-9
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Levítico, Leviticus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, textures on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
El primer trozo del libro bíblico que llamamos Levítico en honor a su preocupación con la labor sacerdotal de los hijos de Leví inicia el empleo de dos vocablos cuya presencia representa un fenómeno estable a lo largo del proyecto. Se trata de las palabras traducidas por ‘aceptable’ (hebreo: ratson y sus derivados) y ‘grato’ [...]
secrecy: Matthew 1-2
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Matthew, textures on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew’s rehearsal of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus twice employs the Greek term lathra, meaning ‘secretly’ or ‘privately’. Given that the word is used only four times in the entire New Testament and in a context in which the evangelist suggests that important activity is occurring behind the scenes, the word brings to [...]
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