This is the first part of a short series (it might only be two parts, who knows 😉 on passages where God exegetes his own words. In this part we’ll look at 2 Samuel 7, where David wants to build a ‘house’ = temple for God, since he already has a nice ‘house’ = palace [&hellip...
The narrative books are on the whole easy targets for finding humour, so again I’ll recycle an old podcast 😉 This time in 2 Samuel 7 where God plays with words and puns away while explaining what he meant… So, here’s the link to the audio: God the Exegete...
These two chapters mark the turning point in David’s story. They offer vital clues also to how we “read” biblical narratives. Nathan’s story within a story provides hints, abouit the nature of narrative meaning David’s strange behaviour during his child’s illness and on his death provides both a clue to an interpretative rule, and some [&hellip...
“The fall of Israel” is a theological (not historical) title. This five covers almost the whole history of the Israelite kingdoms from David to the destruction of Jerusalem. The Deuteronomistic History (Joshua-Kings) from which they all come (cf. remarks on Judges) tell the story with the end in view, one important goal of these books [&hellip...
Bible stories, with a few exceptions (maybe some parables for example) do NOT have nice neat “morals”. If you want to say “and the moral of the story is…” don’t read the Bible. But by contrast if you want people with real depth, who make it difficult for us to work out what their motives [&hellip...
