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1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Acknowledgments
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - Acknowledgments
by SPCK - John Goldingay
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The translation at the beginning of each chapter (and in other biblical quotations) is my own. I have stuck closer to the Hebrew than modern translations often do when they are designed for reading in church so that you can see more precisely what the text says. T…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Introduction
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Introduction
by SPCK - John Goldingay
INTRODUCTION As far as Jesus and the New Testament writers were concerned, the Jewish Scriptures that Christians call the “Old Testament” were the Scriptures. In saying that, I cut corners a bit, as the New Testament never gives us a list of these Scriptures, but the body of Scri…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Acknowledgments
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Acknowledgments
by SPCK - John Goldingay
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The translation at the beginning of each chapter (and in other biblical quotations) is my own. I have stuck closer to the Hebrew than modern translations often do when they are designed for reading in church so that you can see more precisely what the text says. T…
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - GLOSSARY
Genesis for Everyone Part 1 - GLOSSARY
by SPCK - John Goldingay
GLOSSARY altar A structure for offering a sacrifice (the word comes from the word for sacrifice), made of earth or stone. An altar might be relatively small, like a table, and the person making the offering would stand in front of it. Or it might be higher and larger, like a plat…
Evensong - Acknowledgements
Evensong - Acknowledgements
by SPCK - Kenneth Steven
Acknowledgements Poems from Evensong have appeared in the following literary journals: The Countryman, Northwords Now, The Interpreter’s House, Southlight, Scintilla, Acumen, Life and Work, Epoch, Poetry Scotland, New Writing Dundee, The Fireside Book and Staple. A good number of…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - GLOSSARY
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - GLOSSARY
by SPCK - John Goldingay
GLOSSARY aide A supernatural agent through whom God appears and works in the world. English translations call them “angels,” but this suggests ethereal figures with wings, wearing diaphanous white dresses. Aides are humanlike figures; hence it is possible to give them hospitality…
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - GLOSSARY
1 and 2 Samuel for Everyone - GLOSSARY
by SPCK - John Goldingay
GLOSSARY aide A supernatural agent through whom God appears and works in the world. Standard English translations call them “angels,” but this rather suggests ethereal figures with wings, wearing diaphanous white dresses. Aides are humanlike figures; hence it is possible to give …
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Acknowledgments
Genesis for Everyone Part 2 - Acknowledgments
by SPCK - John Goldingay
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The translation at the beginning of each chapter is my own. I have tried to stick closer to the Hebrew than modern translations often do when they are designed for reading in church, so you can see more precisely what the text says. Although I prefer to use gender…
friends, FOES and families - Introduction
friends, FOES and families - Introduction
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Introduction Who endowed the heart with wisdom, or gave understanding to the mind? (Job 38.36, NIV 1984) This is a book about relationships, particularly as recounted in the Scriptures. Using both Old and New Testament characters, some less well remembered than others, we will ch…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Introduction
Gazing on the Gospels year c - Introduction
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Introduction This is the second in the series of Gospel reflections following the Anglican Church’s lectionary, and it follows the same simple pattern as before, which even busy people can find time for as they approach Sunday. It will take no more time to read than would a quick…
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Proper 1 – Year B
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Proper 1 – Year B
by SPCK - Ian Black
Proper 1 – Year B (Between 4 and 10 February, if earlier than 2 before Lent) Sing and give thanks to the Lord For all his wonderful works. Lord Jesus, amidst clamour and great demands you searched out a deserted place to pray. Give your Church wisdom to be still before you . . . …
Psalms for Everyone - One Thing
Psalms for Everyone - One Thing
by SPCK - John Goldingay
One Thing Psalm 27 Soon after I came to the United States, I attended an inaugural lecture by a man who (we were told) was a full-time pastor and a half-time professor. I laughed because I assumed it was a joke—how could you be a full-time this and a half-time that? (He also told…
Psalms for Everyone - Teach Me to Repent
Psalms for Everyone - Teach Me to Repent
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Teach Me to Repent Psalm 51 John Donne was a seventeenth-century priest, love poet, and member of parliament. He also wrote a series of “Holy Sonnets” (found in The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks [New York: Oxford University Press, 1999], 117). In one he imag…
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 6 Year C
Gazing on the Gospels Year C - Proper 6 Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 6 Luke 7: 36- 8: 3 Gaze at the dinner party and all the guests reclining on couches, facing the table, their legs stretched out behind them. This is how it is that the woman can stand behind Jesus at his feet, bathe them with her tears, dry them with her hair, and smother …
Psalms for Everyone Part 2 - Another Amen