Tag: Ezra-Nehemiah
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Studying Ezra 6 13-22
Continuing the narrative of the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem – or alternatively, the building of the “Second Temple” – we’ll get to celebrate the completion of the building project, and Passover, and think about the meaning of those big events in the larger story of the children of Israel. We’ll get to think,…
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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…
Matters of Interpretation 