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- Mark on Jacob prepares for his meeting with Esau – Held on Sunday, October 27, 2013
- Dick on Covenant between Jacob and Laban – Held on Sunday, October 13, 2013
- Mark on Covenant between Jacob and Laban – Held on Sunday, October 13, 2013
- Daniel Russo on Isaac, Abimelech, and Rebekah – Held on Sunday, March 10, 2013
- Daniel Russo on The Birth of Esau and Jacob – Held on Sunday, February 24, 2013
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Tag 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
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
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
Jacob’s Dream at Bethel – Held on Sunday, April 21, 2013
Personal Note on Posting Timeline It’s hard to believe but we’re nearing the end of our 2nd year of reading Genesis, completing today chapter 28. Keep in mind that there are 50 chapters in Genesis. Background: Gen. 28: 10 – … Continue reading
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
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mk. 7: 31-37 – The Healing of a Deaf Man Background Again I am presenting the work of John Meier, A Marginal Jew, Vol. Two: Mentor, Messiah, and Miracle. The opening geography is Jesus passing through predominantly Gentile region with … Continue reading
Session 22 – Held on Sunday, Mar 18, 2012
Abram and Sarai in Egypt – Gen. 12:10 – 20 As we continue in our sojourn through Genesis the titles of the various passages hold more than we might first think. Let’s begin, however, with reading the notes and the … Continue reading
Session 17 Part II– Held on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012
Part II – Gen. 10:1 – 32 – Table of the Nations It will help if you read the notes for this chapter, http://www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/10. The notes make the original meaning of the passage more accessible to us. To begin you … Continue reading
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Tagged Literal Interpretation, Modern Scripture Scholarship
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Session Fourteen – Held on Sunday, January 22, 2012
Discussion of Sources of our Different Opinions Our group easily recognizes that people have different opinions on a whole array of things. Some of those differences are matters of true and false, right and wrong. And these kinds of differences … Continue reading
Catholic Statements on Faith and Science and on the Authorship of the Biblical Account of Noah and the Flood
I wish to respond in a thoughtful way to the comments that address the very approach being taken in our adult study of the scripture. The comment http://rjr.richardross.annaerossi.com/?p=317#comments seem to make a number of assumptions. I think one is that a … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Position, Literal Interpretation, Science and Religion
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