Tag: text
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Reflecting on John 21 1-14
How do we relate ourselves to this story about Jesus meeting some of his friends on the beach … ?
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Maybe Not the Smartest Group
There’s a text critical issue in Judges 7:4-6 – the story of who God picks to go with Gideon to attack the Midianites! It turns on what it means to “kneel” and “lap like a dog.” Different versions, it turns out, resolve it differently. NRSV makes the “lappers” out to be the ones who put…
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Exegetical Exercise (Acts 14 8-11, 19-23)
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, December 17 is Acts 14:8-11, 19-23 (so, skipping most of the story where the people of Lystra mistake Barnabas and Paul for Zeus and Hermes, and are “scarcely restrained” from offering sacrifices to them, even after Paul preaches a sermon urging them to turn to the living God who…
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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
A very short and possibly overly personal reflection on the topic of the Uniform Series text (Genesis 17:1-14) for Sunday, September 10, which was also the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: It was difficult. It was difficult to do the exegesis on this text, it was difficult to think about it, it was difficult to…
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Exegetical Exercise – John 10 1-15
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, April 30 is John 10:1-15. This is the text (NRSV): “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. (2) The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of…
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Exegetical Exercise – 1 Peter 1 3-9
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, April 16 is actually two texts, John 20:1-10 and 1 Peter 1:3-5 & 8-9. Here are my notes on these texts: John 20:1-10 / First impressions: I can’t help taking a “real events” perspective on this text, thinking about how Mary Magdalene (or anyone, I) would feel in the…
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Thinking about the Mahabharata
I have been thinking about the Mahabharata. Not because I am an expert. I finally acquired the new-ish huge-for-an-abridgement English translation of this epic sacred text by John D. Smith, but haven’t read it. I have read the Bhagavad-Gita, but my knowledge of that is still mostly superficial, honestly. I know the outline of the…
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Exegetical Exercise Isaiah 5 1-7
Taking a closer look at Isaiah 5:1-7, “the song of the vineyard,” maybe adding some of the following verses (“Ah,/ Those who add house to house and join field to field, / Till there is room for none but you / To dwell in the land!” Isaiah 5:8 JPS)
Matters of Interpretation 