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The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Household Code Household Duties in Greco-Roman Culture and Early Judaism As long ago as the fourth century BCE, philosophers considered the household a microcosm, the basic social unit whose structure ought to reflect the pyramidal structure of the whole society and even natu
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Sacred Inefficiency
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Sacred Inefficiency
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Sacred Inefficiency Deuteronomy 24: 1-22 Just once in my life I had to give someone the sack because we needed to economize in the seminary and we saw a post we could terminate without too much loss to the enterprise’s efficiency. The person had worked for the seminary for man
LWPT Meditations - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 2nd Samuel 7: 1-14a Psalm 89: 20-37 Ephesians 2: 11-22 Mark 6: 30-34, 53-56 God’s purpose is, and always has been, for human beings to be united in his worship, brought into common fellowship with him. In establishing David as Kin
The Women's Bible Commentary - Rachel: Stealing Laban’s Teraphim
The Women's Bible Commentary - Rachel: Stealing Laban’s Teraphim
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Rachel: Stealing Laban’s Teraphim In an interesting scene leading up to the departure of Jacob and his household from Laban’s land (31:4–16), Jacob speaks to the feuding wives/sisters. He reviews all that has happened to them, tells of a vision he had promising him much of Laban’
The Women's Bible Commentary - Proverbs
The Women's Bible Commentary - Proverbs
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Proverbs Many of the themes addressed in 10:1– 15:33 continue, but antithetical proverbs are now mixed with a greater diversity of wisdom genres, including synonymous and synthetic proverbs, “better than” proverbs (e.g., 16:8, 32; 17:1), rhetorical questions (e.g., 17:16; 18:14),
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