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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Allison-The Sermon on the Mount, Divorce
I am continuing to read and ponder Dale Allison’s book, The Sermon on the Mount. Jesus’ prohibition of divorce in the Sermon on the Mount is difficult and controversial. I haven’t heard the Red Letter Christians pushing this one too … Continue reading
Remembering the Holocaust
Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I have been pastor to some of the WW II vets who liberated the camps. I have seen the photos they took and heard their stories. It does raise questions about God for Christians … Continue reading
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Levenson-Birth order and a note about wine
I am reading Jon Levenson’s The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son. Levenson is Jewish. So, if you are used to Christian studies of the Bible, you may have some disorientation reading him. At least, I do. But that … Continue reading
Allison-The Sermon on the Mount, Lust
I am continuing in Dale Allison’s The Sermon on the Mount. After speaking about anger and the sixth commandment, Jesus moves on to the seventh: you shall not commit adultery. Just as Jesus equated anger with murder, here he equates … Continue reading
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Tagged Adultery, Fireproof, Lust
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Allison-The Sermon on the Mount, Anger
In Matthew 5:22 we get introduced to the reason many have said that the Sermon on the Mount pushes an impossible standard. Jesus says that anyone who is angry with his brother falls into danger of judgment. Some old texts … Continue reading
Posted in historical Jesus, Spirituality, The Sermon on the Mount, Theology
Tagged Anger, Dale Allison, Emotions
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Levenson-Child sacrifice transformed
I am a firstborn son. As such I was supposed to inherit the ranch (an old-fashioned, patriarchal idea, I know). But when I was born with collapsed lungs, my grandmother said that she offered me to God’s service if only I … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Theology
Tagged child sacrifice, clergy, Jon Levenson
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A fantastic Epiphany performance
Well, we are getting close to a month from Christmas. It is still the season of Epiphany, which celebrates the disclosure of Christ to the non-Jewish world in the persons of the Magi or wise men. In ordinary speech an … Continue reading
Allison-a rant and a little bit of the book
Jesus or Matthew must have anticipated that his going beyond the Torah (Matthew 5:21-48) would bring charges that he was undermining the Jewish religion. So that section of the Sermon on the Mount has a preface (5:17-20). To paraphrase, Jesus … Continue reading
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Allison-The Sermon on the Mount 2
Dale Allison in his Sermon on the Mount has a chapter on the structure of the sermon in Matthew. Much of this we can pass over. He contends that you can’t take the Sermon on the Mount out of Matthew … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalyptic, Beatitudes, Dale Allison, Gregory of Nyssa
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Levenson-A Phoenician Myth and John 3:16
Jon Levenson in The Death and Life of the Beloved Son uses two Hebrew Bible stories to illustrate the theme of the non-literal sacrifice of beloved children. One of them is the story of Solomon’s birth to David and Bathsheba. … Continue reading
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Tagged David and Bathshiba, Jacob and Joseph, Jon Levenson, Phoenicians, Solomon
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