Tag: thinking about the Bible
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Reflecting on Deuteronomy 8 1-11
In Deuteronomy 8:10, Moses (the speaker) tells the assembled Israelites that “you will eat your fill and you will bless the HOLY ONE your God for the good land he has given you.” Given the context, it may actually be a little less like a prediction, and a little more like Mom saying to our […]
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Reflecting on Ezra 6 13-22
We are a few weeks in to a set of lessons that all have something to do with freedom, and with the character of God as liberator. With that in mind, we could ask ourselves where we see references to freedom in Ezra 6:13-22, the text we are studying for Sunday, March 20. But there […]
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Reflecting on Ezra 7 1-10 23-26
What does it mean to set one’s heart to study the torah of the Holy One, and to do it, and to teach … ? This continues to strike me as the energetic center of this text, from which everything else flows, and so maybe the central place for us to focus our attention as […]
Matters of Interpretation 