Category Archives: Literal Interpretation

Joseph Makes Himself Known – Held on Sunday, March 30, 2014

Outline of Post on the Scripture Session held on 03/30/14 A Question: Did Judah own the Brothers’ guilt for what they had done to Joseph? Background to today’s Reading Reading Gen. 45: 01 – 28 Discussion A Question: Did Judah … Continue reading

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Jacob and Esau Part Ways – Held on Sunday, November 17, 2013

Outline of Post on the Scripture Session held on 11/17/13 Previous Week’s [11/10/13] Review Background to today’s Reading Reading: Gen. 33: 12 – 17 Discussion Previous Week’s [11/10/13] Review The central point of the previous week’s conversation dealt with a … Continue reading

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Jacob Wrestles with God – Held on Sunday, November 03, 2013

Outline of Session held on 11/03/13 Previous Week’s [10/27/13] Review Background to today’s Reading Reading Discussion Previous Week’s [10/27/13] Review Last week’s web post was food for thought as we opened of our conversation this Sunday.  I had focused attention … Continue reading

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Jacob prepares for his meeting with Esau – Held on Sunday, October 27, 2013

Outline of Session held on 10/27/13 Previous Week’s [10/20/13] Review Background to today’s Reading Reading Discussion Previous Week’s [10/20/13] Review Over the past two or three sessions we have ended up spending nearly an hour in review of the previous … Continue reading

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Abraham’s Sons by Keturah and the Death of Abraham – Held on Sunday, February 17, 2013

Personal Note on Posting Timeline I will be posting by Friday of each week the session from the previous Sunday through Good Friday.  Then we will take a week break so there will not be a post on the week … Continue reading

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The Purchase of a Burial Plot – Held on Sunday, January 20, 2013

Personal Note on Posting Timeline For those of you who come to this site I had hoped to post on the Tuesday, then the Wednesday following the Sunday that we had our gathering.  Obviously I haven’t been faithful to that … Continue reading

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Gen. 19: 01 – 29 – Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah – Held on Sunday, November 4, 2012

Gen. 19:01 – 29 – Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Review The comments from last week, October 28, which were submitted by Tim, Ken, and Dan, I thought, had a real lesson for all of us to learn.  It seems … Continue reading

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Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

Background  Please keep in mind that history for the Hebrews is not concerned with who does what to whom; in other words, this passage is not about history in any modern sense of that word.  Rather the Hebrews understood history … Continue reading

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Session 26 – Held on Sunday, April 29, 2012

Bible: is there substance behind the story?  For nearly all of the first hour of our session we grappled with that question.  Not knowing that we would discuss this question, I started our session repeating what has been something of … Continue reading

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