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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 220
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 220
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 221
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 221
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parent’s Preferential Love for Jacob The book of Malachi opens with the words “I have loved you.” However, this love is cast as a parent’s preference for one son at the expense of another: Jacob is loved, while Esau is an object of hatred…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Rape of Nineveh
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Rape of Nineveh
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Rape of Nineveh In chapter 3 the narrator begins a new section, addressing the personified city in a complex metaphor that wavers between condemnation of Nineveh as a whore and images of the actual city’s destruction…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Man’s First Speech, with Responses by the Woman and the Jerusalem Women
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Speaking about Love These opening verses, by disorienting the reader with a seemingly dizzying array of speakers, abrupt scene changes (king’s chambers, vineyards, pastureland, Pharaoh’s stables, leafy bower, wine house)…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parable of the Yeast By teaching in parables, Jesus assumes Wisdom’s role. The third of seven parables gathered in chapter 13 presents a woman as a main character. Paralleling 13:31–32, the immediately preceding parable of the Mustard Seed…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel
The Women's Bible Commentary - Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel In the first verse of Amos’s speech, the prophet refers to God in the third person: “YHWH roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem” (1:2). In the Hebrew Bible, Zion is associated, directly and indi…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature