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Category Archives: Literary Views of Scripture
In Tents #14 More About Jesus the Pharisee, Beginning with John the Baptizer
Interpretation is transparent to us, as I suggested in my last post, so transparent that we think of what we do as reading, hearing, or receiving the plain sense of a story, essay, passage, song, speech or talk. Interpreting is … Continue reading
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In Tents #12 More about Jesus the Pharisee, with a Further Meditation on the Nature of Perfection
In Luke 13, which opens with the first and ominous mention of Pilate, “There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices,” a group of Pharisees come to … Continue reading
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In Tents # 11 More About Jesus the Pharisee, But First an Interlude Thinking to Thank the Jews
Title: The New Covenant, Commonly Called The New Testament: Volume I The Gospels and Apocalypse Translator: Willis Barnstone Publisher: New York: Riverhead Books Genre: Scripture Year Published: 2002 Number of Pages: 577 Binding: Hardbound in signatures ISBN10: 1-57322-182-1 Price: Title: … Continue reading
In Tents #10 The Story of Jesus the Pharisee, But First a Meditation on Perfection
He never got vexed when the game went wrong And he always told the truth But why did the game go wrong? Was it because Jesus always won and no one wants to play a game they have no possibility … Continue reading
In Tents # 9
Contradictory Commandment, Taking Leaves, and Ritual Language Harlow Soderborg Clark They are not, on the face of it, contradictory commandments, Go forth, multiply and replenish the earth, and Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge … Continue reading
In Tents # 8 Clever Theological End-Runs
One of our major tasks growing up is learning that words have different meanings, that any given word has different meanings, and that knowing which meaning applies when can be confusing. For example, consider a Sunday School class discussing the … Continue reading
In Tents # 7 Renounce and Reverbs
Seventy years ago come Oct 21 Bessie Lloyd Soderborg married Marden J. Clark in the Salt Lake temple and went across the street to the Hotel Utah to spend their first night together, where Marden’s brothers kept prank calling him, … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 Facts About Angels, Eric Jepson, Eternal Misfit, Herman Melville, James Bird Jr., John William King, Kirtland Temple dedicatory prayer, Leslie Fiedler, Lionel Trilling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, No! In Thunder, On the Teaching of Modern Literature, Roger Terry, Rough Stone Rolling
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Unfinished
I recently finished reading The Pale King, the novel David Foster Wallace was working on when he died, by his own hand, in September 2008. I love David Foster Wallace. I love everything he wrote. I certainly never met him … Continue reading
In Tents # 4 The S(k)in of Blackness
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. –Isaiah 54:2 On one of Bob Newhart’s albums (The Button Down Mind Strikes Back?) Bob … Continue reading
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Tagged audience response, Book of Mormon, Lamanites, Nephites, Race, Racism, Textual criticism
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