#bible scholarship

[poor-boy-orpheus]

Who was gonna tell me about the distinctions between John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, John the Presbyter, and John of Patmos???? Y'all let me go 27 years without this information??

#This is James the Just vs James the Great all over again #christian history #biblical history #bible scholarship #I'm rereading the bible this month bc why not and I'm learning lots

[eli-kittim]

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[lenbryant]

Or if it's read by Orange Julius Caesar: "One Timothy."

#bart ehrman #bible scholarship #letters of paul #forgeries #forgery #antiquity #christianity #first timothy #timothy #who wrote the bible? #misquoting jesus

[mojomanusa]

After a long hiatus from Tumblr. All that rampant porn was just not my bag, I’m trying Tumblr again.

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[sashayed]

time for me to review The Whole Bible. ready? ok. to be honest my favorite part of the gospels is Mark 8.22-26, when Jesus spits in some nice blind man's eyeballs and accidentally gives him cosmic consciousness. guy's just like "may i have a teaspoon of visual response to stimulus" and jesus is like "oh sure" and gives him God Vision. fuckin...ayahuasca sight that perceives the interconnectedness of all life. "oh is that not normal? does everyone not have that? nuts. ok try these eyes. are those more regular? great. maybe lie down by yourself for a while and please don't mention this to anyone"

#YES i've read like 8 fundamental world religious texts this year NO i don't think it's made me more normal either!! #fyi as far as i can tell literally no scholarly commentary on this passage supports my reading of it. #nobody agrees with me about the tree eyes. #but on the other hand if u have come to Sashayed Dot Tumblr Dot Gov for biblical scholarship whose fault is that. not mine. #bible cw #jesus (slapping a fig tree across the face): this is just Some Guy. and hes fucking rude

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why did God harden the Pharaoh’s? I’m in a Bible as Lit class and someone brought up “wouldn’t that be against free will,” and why did God let the Israelites stay it in slavery for so long. Why is God different in the Old Testament to the New Testament? I hope this doesn’t bother you, with all these questions

Okay, so there are several different questions here and I'm going to try to address them all. I'm sure I'll miss something somewhere, so other more knowledgeable friends feel free to add on. Follow-ups are also very much welcome.

First off, Bible as literature class! Yikes. I took a Bible as lit class for my English minor years ago and my experience was pretty much wall-to-wall frustration. It was mostly an exercise in coming up with the most transgressive reads on Scripture possible and that really upset me.

I hope that your experience is better than mine. However, assuming that the class is at a secular university, I'd still encourage you to be intentional about talking the things you cover in class over with knowledgeable Christians in your life. I certainly benefitted a lot from doing so, both in the sense that I got to vent a whole bunch and in that I got help contextualizing the secular perspectives within Christian scholarship.

That out of the way: The God of the Bible is the same in both the Old and New Testaments.

I do understand where you’re coming from. It’s not uncommon for people to find God kind of inscrutable in the OT when they're more used to reading the NT. I actually think that's a failure on the part of the contemporary church in the West; large swaths of the OT tend to be understudied among lay-Christians.

Systematic theology can help a lot here. I'm just going to hit a few really broad highlights, but I really can't recommend Wayne Grudem highly enough if you're interested in more in-depth reading. Lots of people start with Bible Doctrine, but my family happened to have a copy of his enormous Systematic Theology tome in the basement when I was in high school and I got a lot out of just poking through that a little at a time too. A few quick bullets though:

Across all the Biblical texts, God is love. He glories in kindness to his people, whether it's in the covenant with Abraham, the Exodus, the faithful ministry of the prophets, Christ's ministry/death/resurrection, or the promised coming of his kingdom.

God is holy; he gives the Law to the Israelites so that they can approach his holiness without fearing for their lives and he sent Jesus so that we can do the same. Both Isaiah and Peter react with fear and awe in the face of God's holiness.

God is just. By virtue of his holiness, he cannot allow sin to go unpunished. As modern westerners, we often chafe against this but has any of us experienced justice that was actually pure? Justice is a form of faithfulness, and the same God who sent his people into exile poured out his wrath on his own son in our place. He has promised that one day, every evil will face his perfect justice.

God is faithful. He keeps his Covenant with Abraham even unto the cross. In the OT he is faithful husband to an adulterous people. In the NT he tells us that when we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

Lots of other characteristics but this answer is going to be long enough as it is. The only way to get a real sense for the continuity within the Bible is to read the whole Bible with an eye towards the continuity.

The reason that God is more approachable in the NT than the Old is that he became human. In the Incarnation, all of that holiness and justice and faithfulness and love that was God came to earth in our perfect likeness so that he could live beside us and die for us. God is certainly easier to approach in light of Christ's work, but he is utterly the same as he ever was. Read the Transfiguration and tell me that isn’t the God of Mount Sinai. Read John 1 and tell me it doesn’t remind you of the end of Job. Read the Gospels, Hebrews, and Revelation and play spot-the-OT-parallel. It's beautiful.

Why did God leave his people in slavery for so long? You could ask the same question about the Babylonian captivity and even about why Jesus waits to return and finally defeat Death. Why does he wait? Why let his people suffer?

Well. God is sovereign and he only permits evil to the extent that it ultimately accomplishes the very opposite of what it intends. Because the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Exodus was able to occur. The Exodus glorified God in extraordinary fashion, both among his own people and to the peoples of the ancient world. It was also a necessary type and precursor to Jesus's work on the cross. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that redemptive history rests on God's work in the Exodus, which is itself contingent on a period of slavery in Egypt.

“How long, O Lord” and “Come Lord Jesus” are the same sentiment in different words. We are still in exile, even now. We are chronologically exiled from the place where we belong, the New Jerusalem, and we mourn because we live in a fallen world in which sin and death can still hurt us. We can ask, just as the Prophets once asked, why God waits to vanquish the Enemy, extract suffering from the world, and restore our years that the locusts have eaten. And in each case (the slaves in Egypt, the Babylonian captivity, and the period of waiting for Jesus to return), the answer is that God does not fix it yet because He is doing something bigger!

Regarding Pharaoh's heart: this is basically a question of human nature. The easiest way that I can articulate it off the top of my head is using Augustine's fourfold state of man:

Prior to the fall, man was able either to sin or not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare)

The natural state of man after the fall is one in which he is unable not to sin (non posse non peccare). This was Pharaoh's state.

Following the work of Christ, regenerate man is able not to sin (posse non peccare)

In eternity, glorified man will be unable to sin (non posse peccare)

When we talk about man's will, we must acknowledge that our wills are subject to our nature. In other words, Pharaoh was a natural, fallen man. His nature was inherently sinful and his heart inherently hard.

What we've got here is sort of a "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated" situation. Pharaoh, in his natural state, had a hard heart and a natural enmity with God. God did not intervene to give him a heart of flesh. My people I have loved, but Pharaoh I have hated.

Not a perfect parallel, but I think it serves its purpose. The point is that God's sovereignty isn't in conflict with man's will, since our wills are a function of our natures. Man behaves however his nature inclines him to behave at any given time. We call this free will; however, God is entirely sovereign over all of it.

This is definitely a long, messy answer, but like I said, feel free to continue the conversation. I've got some biochem to work on, but I'm always happy to talk theology :)

#Secular Bible as lit classes really are a quagmire #mine was basically where I decided that I straight up do not care what non-Christians have to say about the Bible #(in the scholarship sense I mean) #if you don't have skin in the game then i couldn't care less what you think on authorship/characterization in genesis/weird subversive take #on ruth/Job being internally inconsistent/God's gender/the purpose of the parables/whatever other nonsense #sigh #and like. i had a good theological grounding to be able to push back on the BS nine times out of ten #my prof actually called me the most engaged student she'd ever taught which was pretty hilarious #but i was FURIOUS on behalf of the other Christians in the class who by and large had relatively shallow foundations as far as i could tell #like one girl was seriously doubting whether God was good when we did the prophets because of the way it was presented #i went to the prof's office hours one time to pick a fight (long story) and she told me that she's had numerous students over the years #that renounced their faith after taking her class #i spent the whole semester praying for all the names on the class roster #ugh i could rant about that class forever #meanwhile! no discussion of the ACTUAL literary merits of the Bible which are awesome! #the poetry the reoccurring motifs the deft use of metaphor the beautiful elevation of theology to art #i wanted to talk about that! #and that wasn't what the class was about #this was years ago and i'm still mad. sorry #maybe that'll be a separate post one of these days #ask me hard questions #only thou art holy

[spiritualdirections]

St. Jerome, the model interpreter of Scripture

From  Scripturae Sacrae Affectus,Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter on St. Jerome:

‘Biblical passages are not always immediately accessible. As Isaiah said (29:11), even for those who know how to “read” – that is, those who have had a sufficient intellectual training – the sacred book appears “sealed”, hermetically closed to interpretation. A witness is needed to intervene and provide the key to its liberating message, which is Christ the Lord. He alone is able to break the seal and open the book (cf. Rev 5:1-10) and in this way unveil its wondrous outpouring of grace (Lk 4:17-21). Many, even among practising Christians, say openly that they are not able to read it (cf. Is 29:12), not because of illiteracy, but because they are unprepared for the biblical language, its modes of expression and its ancient cultural traditions. As a result the biblical text becomes indecipherable, as if it were written in an unknown alphabet and an esoteric tongue.

‘This shows the need for the mediation of an interpreter, who can exercise a “diaconal” function on behalf of the person who cannot understand the meaning of the prophetic message. Here we think of the deacon Philip, sent by the Lord to approach the chariot of the eunuch who was reading a passage from Isaiah (53:7-8), without being able to unlock its meaning. “Do you understand what you are reading?” asked Philip, and the eunuch replied: “How can I, unless someone guides me?” (Acts 8:30-31).[32]

‘Jerome can serve as our guide because, like Philip (cf. Acts 8:35), he leads every reader to the mystery of Jesus, while responsibly and systematically providing the exegetical and cultural information needed for a correct and fruitful reading of the Scriptures.[33] In an integrated and skilful way he employed all the methodological resources available in his day – competence in the languages in which the word of God was handed down, careful analysis and examination of manuscripts, detailed archeological research, as well as knowledge of the history of interpretation – in order to point to a correct understanding of the inspired Scriptures.

‘This outstanding aspect of the activity of Saint Jerome is also of great importance for the Church in our own time. If, as Dei Verbum teaches, the Bible constitutes as it were “the soul of sacred theology”[34] and the spiritual support of the Christian life,[35] the interpretation of the Bible must necessarily be accompanied by specific skills."

#st jerome #bible study #biblical scholarship #scripture study #pope francis #scripture #tradition

[cr0w-culture]

shoutout to all the people on ebay selling copies of the satanic bible + other occult books in sets for $66.6 i adore all of you

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[maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit]

New gospel of Matthew just dropped before winds of winter

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[awkward-smirks]

i keep having this reoccurring dream that i'm taking the subway to the beach. it's always from some vague idea of my community college (where it's dark? like the vibes are an elementary school classroom in the afternoon in the summertime when it gets too hot and the teacher turns off the lights to try to keep cool). and I'm taking the very busy subway (think new york grand central station but underground and darker and grimier) and I need to transfer down to the Beach Subway ™. they're on a very strict hourly timeline and in some dreams, i miss it altogether.

the beach subway starts underground but then you start driving on the sand dunes and the tracks feel more like a rollercoaster as you rise and fall along the tracks according to the dunes the closer you get to the beach. like it's WILD how high up you get. at one point, you're above ground but you're under the highway pier (???) where there's columns of wet but not rotten dark wooden columns on either side of you and sand below you. in some dreams, the subway actually BECOMES a rollercoaster and you get an insane city nightscape view and you're genuinely so high, the fall is scary. and then you get off and it's the beach where the sand is extremely white and soft and fluffy and the water is so clear and blue/turquoise and there's a bunch of other people but once it's me and the water, that's all that matters to me.

#sandy rambling #idk why i bothered to share this but i JUST remembered my dream and needed to write it down #in this one i had an intervention from my cc scholarship mentor and one of her students handed me a bible??? and then she gave me a pad #bc i was worried i was gonna get my period on this beach trip #so yeah.... #also a beach room (like just a section of the beach where they just built an enclosure around it) #where the kids and this safari guy caught crabs??? #strange #also i proofread none of this so sorry

[argentumcor]

Just got the Word on Fire The Promised Land part of the WoF Bible and I realized I have all the volumes up backwards on my shelf. Once again, I do not girlboss, I girlfunction.

Also that I am going to need an entire shelf just to hold them once they're all complete- I have five, there are three more forthcoming.

It really is a wonderful Bible.

#catholic #bible #WoF was like “we've got all this great heritage of art and scholarship about scripture let's put it next to scripture” #And it needed eight hefty volumes #you knock out at least three New Atheists in one swing with the Pentateuch #Not that you should but you could

[hopethroughscriptureministries]

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[lenbryant]

First came Mark, then came Luke and Matthew, then lastly John. The message gets slightly altered when people realized the apocalypse wasn't happening anytime soon.

#bart ehrman #jesus #gospels #apocalypitic #religion scholars #biblical scholarship #bible

[k12academics]

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[swords0827]

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[harmonyd]

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