has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it ...
So pick one book of the Bible and read a little each day, one chapter, perhaps. If you read one chapter of John a day, (which will take no more than 5-10 minutes) you’ll read John in it’s entirety in 21 days. After reading John, move on to the other gospels – Matthew...
Hebrew The Bible, hymns of praise to God - central to Jewish life in temples of JerusalemSummary This chapter contains sections titled: What Is the Bible? The Bible as Literature The Biblical Genres Biblical Hermeneutics Types of ExegesisRebecca Lemon...
Summary This chapter contains sections titled: From Religion to Religions Irony and the Higher Criticism New Kinds of Narrative: The Bible as Novel BibliographyDavid Fergusson Professor of Divinity Principal FellowWiley‐Blackwell
Paragraph 48 begins the chapter on the Mass. And the title of this chapter is interesting. It’s not called “The Eucharist” or “The Mass”; it’s called “The Most Sacred Mystery of the Eucharist.” Even in the chapter title, you have the sense that what’s important is mystery, ...
Chapter 8 THE REMODELING OF MYTH Before moving on from the Greek myths,it is worth pausing to reflect on the many and inconsistent versions of even the most celebrated myths.Storytellers elaborated,dramatized,maybe invented new material. But we should not be concerned that there are many versions...
own painful fall to earth. Such a timely reading was itself an accident. I happened to have with me Patricia Hampl’s reflections about Montaigne inThe Art of the Wasted Day, and when I opened the book in my hospital room the next morning, her chapter about his fall was the next one ...
Eating Blood Forbidden - The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘This is what the LORD has
Chapter 21 -The Priest and the Holy Band. -David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech was afraid when he encountered David and he said to
at the TV as the unimaginably tall structures swayed, then buckled. Dad stood next to me. He’d come in from the junkyard to watch. He said nothing. That evening he read aloud from the Bible, familiar passages from Isaiah, Luke, and the Book of Revelation, about wars and rumors of ...