The readings - Days 102 and 103 - 1 Kings 1-5
Here we are, playing catch up again. Things were going so well, too. It's funny how the books/passages that are more boring (IE the dry philosophical/statistical/historical bits) often actually end up being better fodder for writing/reflection that the faster-paced narrative stuff...
Not that the book(s) of Kings starts off at a particularly riveting clip, but still - it's story, and stuff's happening, but maybe that's what makes it a bit harder to write about. The stuff happens, you read about it, and that's pretty much that.
On to Solomon.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
1 Sam 1-8 - The king and I... srael...
The readings - Days 86 and 87 - 1 Samuel 1-8
If Judges is any indication, the fact that 1 Samuel starts with a man who is from the hill country in Ephraim is hardly the most optimistic sign... Hopefully this one turns out better.
A couple of interesting things about the opening chapters of 1Sam struck me over the course of this run-through.
The first is that I find it somewhat bizarre that people blindly throw out a phrase like "traditional Biblical interpretation of marriage" without, apparently, much of a fleshed-out idea of what that might mean. Samuel himself is the son of a second wife. Anyway... moving on.
If Judges is any indication, the fact that 1 Samuel starts with a man who is from the hill country in Ephraim is hardly the most optimistic sign... Hopefully this one turns out better.
A couple of interesting things about the opening chapters of 1Sam struck me over the course of this run-through.
The first is that I find it somewhat bizarre that people blindly throw out a phrase like "traditional Biblical interpretation of marriage" without, apparently, much of a fleshed-out idea of what that might mean. Samuel himself is the son of a second wife. Anyway... moving on.
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