tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post7759284444383287815..comments2023-10-30T05:38:45.028-07:00Comments on The Infusion: Reading the Bible: random thoughtsLKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791517233920008067noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-58753834118573119042009-11-18T14:42:28.793-08:002009-11-18T14:42:28.793-08:00Oh, I recognize most snark when I see it. :-)
Th...Oh, I recognize most snark when I see it. :-)<br /><br />Thanks again for all the great thoughts.LKThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05791517233920008067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-77546576427989797192009-11-17T18:03:29.463-08:002009-11-17T18:03:29.463-08:00"READING" the Bible is definitely a prot..."READING" the Bible is definitely a protestant legacy. And I grieve that we have switched from 'hearing' the word to reading it in the bulletin... so much of the metaphor, mystery and other imagery --as well as the experience of hearing it is lost to us in being textually driven worshipers.<br /><br />I don't think I have ever read I & II Kings all the way through.... boring. I always give up in Lev. and Deut. too.... sigh.<br /><br />I have taught John's Revelation.... love the machine beetles and waggy-headed monsters! It is a book of great hope written in a time of awful torture and despair....<br /><br />And, Laura --you know I was just being snarky with all that bible burning, don't you!!? I loved your post --but I do think Biblical authority and interpretation are THE questions of our age.it's margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577280471100732619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-74400388925645462212009-11-17T15:32:24.995-08:002009-11-17T15:32:24.995-08:00Glad you enjoyed my apparently not-so-anonymous po...Glad you enjoyed my apparently not-so-anonymous postings! <br /><br />Hope you will also enjoy my preliminary answers to the interesting questions in your new post:<br /><br />1. I have always assumed that the emphasis on reading the Bible is a Protestant legacy, thus modern in the sense that the Reformation is modern (or at least early modern). Much older than mass literacy or national public schooling, but much newer than the actual foundation of Christianity itself. It occurs to me, though, that early Protestantism featured family Bible reading in the evening, which is rather a different thing from individual Bible reading at random times of day. I'm not sure when the Bible left the hands of the patriarch at the head of the household and arrived in the individual hands of women, children, servants, and slaves.<br /><br />2. Love the T-shirt! It reminds me of my favorite new Bible discovery, Nehemiah 7:73-8:18, a Bible story about how to read the Bible. I especially like the part that says, "So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading." Imagine, a Bible story about interpreting the Bible! This was the daily office reading for Wednesday, November 11. Thank you again, Episcopal evening prayer ...<br /><br />3. There are lots of Bible books I've never read because I've yet to get around to it, but the only one I have intentionally avoided is the Book of Revelation. What can I say? I scare easily ...<br /><br />Yours,<br /><br />JEP (er, I mean, Anonymous)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com