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The Women's Bible Commentary - Redemption and Resolution
The Women's Bible Commentary - Redemption and Resolution
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Redemption and Resolution Just as Naomi predicted (3:18), Boaz moves quickly to settle the matter. The gate represents the legal assembly of the town, where its male citizens determine judicial and economic cases…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The History of the People and Their Enemies in the Exodus
The Women's Bible Commentary - The History of the People and Their Enemies in the Exodus
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The History of the People and Their Enemies in the Exodus The third part of the Wisdom of Solomon is marked by the sudden eclipse of Woman Wisdom, as God acts directly on behalf of the people…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Journey from Sinai to the East Bank of the Jordan
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Journey from Sinai to the East Bank of the Jordan
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Journey from Sinai to the East Bank of the Jordan Once the journey is underway, the bulk of this section of Part One focuses on disputes about leadership. Wholesale disobedience (Num. 14) results in a thirty-eight-year pause in the journey…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Wife/Sister Tales
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Wife/Sister Tales
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Wife/Sister Tales Three times in Genesis, when the patriarch and his wife are “sojourning”— traveling as resident aliens—in a foreign land, the ruler of that country is told that the wife is a sister of the patriarch…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Story of Vashti
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Story of Vashti
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Story of Vashti The first female character the book of Esther introduces is Vashti the queen, the wife of Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus summons her to appear before his court in the midst of a wild drinking party, in order that he may show off her beauty…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women Challenge Authority
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women Challenge Authority
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Part Two: The New Generation (Numbers 26-36) A second census (Num. 26) marks the opening of a new phase of God’s work with the people. By contrast to Part One, the final chapters include stories where disobedience may have been brewing but is averted. Sometimes communities that h…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women in the Joseph Tales
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women in the Joseph Tales
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Women in the Joseph Tales The Comparative Absence of Women in the Joseph Tales. The Joseph narrative has no heroes who are tricksters, and its women are only two: Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, mentioned in one line (41:45) as part of the reward given to Joseph for…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women as the Strongest
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women as the Strongest
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Women as the Strongest The story of the contest has been expanded by the addition of the fourth section about truth (4:33–41). In its original form, the argument about women (4:13–32) would have been the climax and conclusion of the contest about “what one thing is strongest” (3:…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Third Movement: Nehemiah and the Judahites Build Jerusalem’s Wall
The Women's Bible Commentary - Third Movement: Nehemiah and the Judahites Build Jerusalem’s Wall
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Third Movement: Nehemiah and the Judahites Build Jerusalem’s Wall The third stage is presented through the eyes and words of Nehemiah in a first- person recollection often labelled “memoirs” (which many scholars attribute to Nehemiah himself)…
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Proverbs By Topics
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs for Everyone - Proverbs By Topics
by SPCK - John Goldingay
PROVERBS BY TOPICS We have noted that many topics recur in different places in Proverbs. Presumably the compilers intended it that way, to encourage people to reflect on one saying at a time. Proverbs mirrors the Bible as a whole in not being ordered systematically. But there’s a…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 15 Three Roadblocks
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 15 Three Roadblocks
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Essay 2 Sex Three Roadblocks In the previous section of the essay (2.1) Paul cut the Gordian knot. He told the Corinthians to remove the offender from the fellowship of the church. Here he discusses head-on three aspects of this case of incest that must be dealt with. These are n…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 18 Sexual Practice in Harmony with the Gospel
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 18 Sexual Practice in Harmony with the Gospel
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Sexual Practice in Harmony with the Gospel By way of review, the bare bones of this second essay are: 2.1. Immorality and the Church (4:17–5:6a) 2.2. (Three Roadblocks: Leaven, Immorality and the Law Courts) (5:6b–6:8) 2.3. Theology of Sexual Practice: Kingdom Ethics (6:9-12) 2.4…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 27 Gifts and the Nature of the Body
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 27 Gifts and the Nature of the Body
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Gifts and the Nature of the Body In this homily, 12:1-30, Paul discusses the third problem related to worship covered in this essay [see fig. 4.3(1)]. In review, the three are: Male and female prophets leading in worship and how they should dress (11:2-16). Gross irregularities a…
Prayer/Reflection: Of whom shall I be afraid?
Prayer/Reflection: Of whom shall I be afraid?
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer/Reflection: Of whom shall I be afraid? ‘The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of whom shall I be afraid? Tell that to the sufferers of domestic violence; to the children neglected or abused; to the women raped by men with guns; to the families left homeless by floods; to…
Journeying With Mark Year B - Passion - Holy Week
Journeying With Mark Year B - Passion - Holy Week
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
5 Passion – Holy Week Exploring the text The Revised Common Lectionary’s decision to intersperse Mark’s Gospel with John’s Gospel is nowhere more frustrating than in Holy Week. As we noted in the Introduction, Mark’s Gospel builds from the moment that John the Baptist bursts on t…
The Women's Bible Commentary - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife
The Women's Bible Commentary - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife In the third and final section, chapters 12–14, the prophet takes up the marital metaphor of chapters 1–3 once again. In the first section of the book, the punishment of the wife sparked her repentance and return to he…
the historical character of Jesus - 3d Indirect references