The biblical eye surveys the landscape both retrospectively and prospectively. It discover evidence of YHWH’s intense care for his own in history and in hope. Even in apocalyptic literature—that tone of voice that continues to speak even as civilization’s lights go out and chaos roams the streets—YHWH is not seen to have failed his own. [...]
Archive for February, 2010
critical care: Matthew 24
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plotting with polytheists: Exodus 18
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The biblical book of Exodus tosses off some odd and enigmatic scenes in the life of Moses, Israel’s liberator and law-giver. Curiously, his erstwhile Midianite wife Zipporah plays a role in more than one of them. The narrator allows us to stumble upon details that we feel we should have known but do not. For [...]
constant accompaniment: Exodus 13
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Exodus, textures on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As they fled their Egyptian taskmasters under the half-truth of worshipping YHWH in the trackless Sinai, the Hebrew slaves displayed a capacity for extraordinary myopia. ‘Were there no graves in Egypt?’, they taunted Moses. ‘Is that why you brought us out here to die?’ Yet bearing along the palpable promise of Joseph’s bones—caught between negotiated [...]
water and wine: John 2
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Contrary to an attractively sentimental reading, John’s account of the miracle at a wedding in Cana of Galilee is not about Jesus’ common touch, Mary’s maternal affection, or the Master’s interest in the details of our lives (the embarrassment of an under-stocked wine cellar on wedding day, for example). The event is, for the writer [...]
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