Here's the video of last week's temple tantrum/Happy Birthday song.
Here below is the Leonard Sweet video on verse-itis and apples and oranges:
Click here to read the Bible Background Commentary we talked about tonight:
(or its also on the Philemon help page).
Click here to read Philemon in N.T. Wright's Kingdom New Testament (put PHILEMON in the search bar there)
Psalms:
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There are several ways to categorize the psalms.
The first is the way the Bible itself does: Psalms is broken down into 5 "books" Hmm, 5...does that sound familiar? Name another book with 5 sections and suggest an answer for "Whats up with the number 5?"
Note the 5 sections are not comprised of different kinds/genres of psalms..but the styles and kinds are "randomnly"
represented througout the book..
kind of like life..
Here is one way to categorize the styles and genres:
- lament
- imprecatory
- praise
- thanksgiving
- petition
Walter Brueggemann suggests another helpful way to categorize the Psalms.
Orientation:
o Creation - in which we consider the world and our place in it
o Torah - in which we consider the importance of God's revealed will
o Wisdom - in which we consider the importance of living well
o Narrative - in which we consider our past and its influence on our present
o Psalms of Trust - in which we express our trust in God's care and goodness
q Disorientation:
o Lament - in which we/I express anger, frustration, confusion about God's (seeming?) absence
§ Communal
§ Individual
o Penitential - in which we/I express regret and sorrow over wrongs we have done
§ Communal
§ Individual
q Reorientation
o Thanksgiving - in which we thank God for what God has done for us/me
§ Communal
§ Individual
o Hymns of Praise - in which we praise God for who God is
o Zion Psalms- in which we praise God for our home
o Royal Psalms - in which we consider the role of political leadership
o Covenant Renewal - in which we renew our relationship with God
-Bruggeman, source Click here.note how astonishingly HONEST the prayer/worship book of the Jews (and Christians) is!
Life is both Psalm 22 and 23...sometimes on the same day, in the same prayer.
If we think both/and...we think Hebrew.
Here's a link with several of the stories and illustrations I talked about :
"The Lord Be With You...Even When He’s Not!"
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We started watching Rob Bell's "Drops Like Stars" He follows a similar pattern to that of the psalms we talked about ..
We;ll watch the first half of the video this week (through 1:17:34), and pick up the rest next week.
The main point is about suffering and creativity. Plenty to relate to for nurses.
Look also for these class themes
-a Prodigal Son paradoxical hemistiche
-the liminality (see "Radical Loving Care," pp, 82ff) of the hospital hallway
-removal of "insulators"
-removing the boundary (or "box") of a bounded set.
-how "texting" can literally save lives
-the power of unplanned and unscripted interruptions
Trailer (first clip below)
Full film (second clip below)
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