Tag: Scripture
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21. Egypt
Continuing reflections on reading the Old Testament, now on the beginning of Exodus. What’s the problem with Egypt? It’s not merely the fact of Israel’s enslavement, but something constitutive about Egypt itself, something that makes the problem extend beyond the geographical bounds of the ancient kingdom and into the hearts of the Israelites in the…
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9. More notes on Genesis
Still banging my head against the wall on the post I mentioned yesterday, so continuing on with reflections on Genesis and beyond. In Lamech, violence intensifies as does alienation from God. He cries out, “Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.” Note that it was God who decreed sevenfold…
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3. Genesis 1-4
One of the many, potentially fool-hardy and doomed to failure, projects I’ve given to myself in the recent past is a reading of the whole of the Bible. Currently, I’m lost somewhere at the tail end of Exodus, unable to find the time each day to devote to the project (the time is there, it’s…
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whither can I flee from thy presence?
Reading in the Psalms yesterday, I was struck by the resonances between Psalm 138 and Anselm’s project in the Proslogion and Cur Deus Homo. My read of Anselm here is shaped heavily by Burcht Pranger’s interpretation of the saint’s thought. Not coincidentally, I recently attended a lecture by Prof. Pranger on Anselm, thus these ideas were percolating…
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1 Kings 19
At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD— but the LORD…
Dan Yingst 