5 Minute Bible

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Chance or Providence?

Often in biblical narrative things "just seem to happen", rather like they do in our lives ;) But are such "happenings" chance or divine providence at work? We'll try to decide, using Gen 37:12ff. (read with Gen 39) and Ruth 2 as examples.

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Labels: gapping, genesis, narrative, ruth

Saturday, September 6, 2008

An Introduction to Gapping

Gapping, where hearers have to "fill in" information that is missing in the text, is a really significant part of biblical story-telling. So, I'll need to introduce the idea to next year's Biblical Narrative class. Normally we "gap" unconsciously, and not just when reading narratives as I hope I'll show you in this podcast. We'll also begin to think about what makes gapping more - or less - legitimate. (See 2 Corinthians 11)

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Labels: 1cor, gapping, narrative