This second look at the complaint psalms continues to focus on Psalm 22. Part three will return to Jeremiah...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Complaint Psalms: Part OneThis post starts to talk about Psalm 22, mentioning Job 10 on the way, we will examine these passages as a way into understanding "complaint psalms". Complaints are the commonest type of psalm in the book of psalms. You might like to listen to my earlier post "Arguing with God: Jer 12:1-4" first, it sets the scene for this one, and should probably have been called "Complaint psalms: Part One"!
I hope the next post - in a few days - will follow up looking some more at Psalm 22.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jonah 1:3-5 : What's Jonah doing?!The puzzle of Jonah's actions, and other strange goings-on don't stop in verse 3, but deepen (pun intended) as we begin to read on... we meet the ship that had plans of its own and hear echoes of Santa Claus in the telling of Jonah's story...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jonah 1:2 - Three little wordsContinuing the series on Jonah, we rush ahead into the second verse of the book, only to spot yet again possibly more than one meaning. Jonah's task however is clear.
By the way I am sorry about the long delays recently, I hope to post more regularly again, but not till after enjoying a two week holiday - starting on Sunday.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Isaiah 40 in BabylonIt is certainly one of my favourite Bible passages, indeed it is many people's favourite Bible chapter.
Isaiah 40 is just full of superb phrases and pictures. Whenever it was composed, this chapter really comes to life
and sparkles when it is heard as the Judean exiles in Babylon heard, it just before Cyrus the Persian king captured the city.
For a better idea of the background watch the Video "Babylon as background to hearing Isaiah 40"
http://5minutebible.com/video/isaiah40.wmv (4MB) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sexual humour in EstherThe book of Esther tells a terrible story, of attempted genocide averted.
Too often Christian readers miss the humour in the story, of course some of it is sex related,
and/or poking fun at gender expectations, so perhaps there are reasons for the blindness.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Babel 2: Gen 11 a straight up and down storyThis podcast takes a second look at Babel, with a focus on the structure of the story, and its themes.
It includes "homework" for which you should ideally have a photocopy of Genesis 11:1-9
(preferably in a fairly literal translation like NRSV, RSV, TNIV, NIV, ESV...) and some coloured markers or crayons.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Babbling about Babel: Gen 11:1-9: Part 1A first 'cast about Babel. Points of view and language.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Biblical Narrative: Fraught with Background: Genesis 24Eric Auerbach's famous quote about Biblical Narrative being "fraught with background" can sound puzzling.
Here I'll try to explain it with reference to some trivial but intriguing details in Genesis 24.
Reading the chapter in the Hebrew class we spotted several minor details in the telling that suggest,
or hint... well, listen and find out what!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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