5 minute Bible » Law http://5minutebible.com short, deep, crisp, provocative Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 E100-21: Exodus 19:1 – 20:21: The Ten Commandments http://5minutebible.com/e100/e100-21-exodus-191-%e2%80%93-2021-the-ten-commandments/ http://5minutebible.com/e100/e100-21-exodus-191-%e2%80%93-2021-the-ten-commandments/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 16:15:43 +0000 tim http://5minutebible.com/?p=364

Two stone tablets stood in the Holy of Holies of the little Judean temple at Arad. (See http://www.ebibletools.com/israel/arad/)

This reflection focuses on two things from this reading, the significance of calling Israel (in the context of making a covenant) a priestly kingdom and a holy nation, and how we should read/understand the ten commandments. (For that part it may help to listen to some of the podcasts here, in particular Casuistic and apodictic: part 1: What the terms mean.) We’ll also end by realising what it means to say Yahweh is a jealous God, and very briefly start thinking about what that jealousy means.


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]]> http://5minutebible.com/e100/e100-21-exodus-191-%e2%80%93-2021-the-ten-commandments/feed/ 0 E100 week 5: The Law and the Land http://5minutebible.com/e100/e100-week-5-the-law-and-the-land/ http://5minutebible.com/e100/e100-week-5-the-law-and-the-land/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 15:42:41 +0000 tim http://5minutebible.com/?p=400 Despite its title this five has little about the law, and not enough about the covenant (binding agreement) to which this law belongs. The selection of passages (the first time I have strongly differed from the choice made by the organisers) is weighted towards American Evangelical favourite Sunday School stories. Having got that gripe off my chest, we’ll notice how in these readings we learn (again) about what it does and does not mean to be God’s chosen people. And we will discover more in those Sunday School stories than they taught in my Sunday School ;) And incidentally I will promise again that I will deal with the problem of God’s repeated orders for brutal and seemingly indiscriminate killing – but can’t do that topic justice without breaking the format of either the E100 or the 5 Minute Bible or both :(


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]]> http://5minutebible.com/e100/e100-week-5-the-law-and-the-land/feed/ 0 Casuistic and apodictic: part 2: The Jesus Key http://5minutebible.com/jesus/casuistic-and-apodictic-part-2-the-jesus-key/ http://5minutebible.com/jesus/casuistic-and-apodictic-part-2-the-jesus-key/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:22:00 +0000 tim http://5minutebible.com/?p=8 In this I’ll tell you how I think Jesus offers the key to how we should understand the casuistic laws of the Old Testament. It’s simple, but as I’ll go on to show in later ‘casts profound. The clue is found in a passage we’ve looked at before (Matt 5) especially in Matt 5:17-22. (See here for that ‘cast, and here for a whole sermon ;) . ]]> http://5minutebible.com/jesus/casuistic-and-apodictic-part-2-the-jesus-key/feed/ 4 Casuistic and apodictic: part 1: What the terms mean http://5minutebible.com/jesus/casuistic-and-apodictic-part-1-what-the-terms-mean/ http://5minutebible.com/jesus/casuistic-and-apodictic-part-1-what-the-terms-mean/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:01:00 +0000 tim http://5minutebible.com/?p=7 The distinction between casuistic and apodictic formulations of “legal” material in the Bible, seems like a prime example of scholarship which has lost touch with the needs of real Bible readers. Not least the abstruse technical language puts people off. Yet this distinction has deeply theological consequences, and Jesus seems to “fulfill” OT law (at least in part) by rephrasing the casuistic as apodictic.

In this first part I’ll begin the boring stuff, and introduce what scholars meant by distinguishing casuistic from apodictic material in the laws of the Old Testament. Part 2 will get to the exciting stuff. (I know this is not the best way to gain your attention, but sometimes work is needed before the fun can start.)


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