Tag: Ezra 10:1-12

• Reflecting on Ezra 10 1-12

  

  We are studying Ezra 10:1-12 for Sunday, April 11. This is a critical part of the episode of the post-exilic community’s decision to “separate” from “foreign wives and the ones born to them.” Ezra, scribe and priest, along with other community leaders interpreted these intermarriages with “the people of the land” as an enormous problem.…

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  April 9, 2021

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, critical thinking, empathy, Ezra 10:1-12, hermeneutics, problem solving, reading the Bible

• Studying Ezra 10 1-12

  

  Please be forewarned: people who are looking for a conventionally pious reading of Ezra 10:1-12, the text we are studying for Sunday, April 11, will not find it here. I think a lot is at stake in how we read this text, honestly. I think that if we accept the moral wisdom and the God-ordained…

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  April 8, 2021

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible study, ethics, Ezra 10:1-12, Ezra-Nehemiah, reading the Bible, resistance, texts that aren't in the lectionary, values