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Reading Job, part 6Reading a biblical book is no simple thing.But before you can even start to approach the book, you need to be very clear in your mind about what reading you're about to undertake.Are you reading through the glasses of the scholar or that of faith ?And please read "faith" in the widest possible meaning. In my interpretation, reading something to find "The Truth" is a reading of

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Reading Job, part 5The relationship between the frame-narrative and the poetic dialogue.The book of Job has several distinctive parts. The most obvious "division" is that between the narrative at the ends, and the poetic bulk of the book.The framework consists of chapters 1-2 and 42:7-17.The rest is a sort-of dialogue between Job and his 3 friends : Elifaz, Bildad and Zophar, and then there are

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Reading Job, part 4. Biblical WisdomI'm reading commentaries. And general works on wisdom literature. There are 3 books of the Old Testament that everyone agrees is wisdom-literature : Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job. They all belong to the same general genre, because they all deal with the life of everyman ...or rather ... the issues dealt with in each of them are issues that every man (and woman

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Reading Job, part 3Textual criticism.There are many issues when reading Job.One of the fairly serious ones is : Which Job are you reading ?Just try reading the King James version and the RSV-version (and probably even the NEW RSV-version), and you will see that they differ greatly from each other at some points.... and yet, they are both translations of the same, basic, Hebrew text.With Job, the

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Reading the book of Job. Part 2First commentaryWell, the first commentary on Job is read.Anthony and Miriam Hanson : "The book of Job. Introduction and Commentary". SCM Press Ltd. London 1953 and later. Part of the Torch Bible Commentaries.Now, don't get me wrong. It's a nice enough commentary, BUT ...For scholarly work it is all but useless.But then, it does not have the ambition to be scholarly

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Reading the book of Job. Part 1I like to read. I could do it more or less all day ... if it wasn't for other things getting in the way. Things like housework, using my hands, being a mother to my children and a wife to my husband ... and all the other things that make up the woman that is me.And at the present, I'm trying to prepare a class on the master-degree-level on the book of Job from the

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Psalm 73Well, it's been the longest time, hasn't it :-)I'm part of an online study of psalms, and this past week, we've been trying to deal with psalm 73. Here are some of my thoughts :-)I've been reading this psalm every day for the past week, and what with the things that are and have been happening around "our" ears internationally, not least the atrocious slaughter of little girls in a Amish

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This will be a really short one, and I'll probably not have time to do much for the next couple of months. I'll try, but ... what's in the horizon is too much work.BUT, here it is :-)Sometimes reading two or more un-related texts can be a great eye-opener.Right now I'm (re-re-re-whatever) -reading Winne-the-Pooh, and have - as always - the text for the next sermon ready on the table.Now, what I

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Some issues have come up in my parish over the past couple of days, that reminded me of "poverty". And it has reminded me, that poverty is very much a state of mind. It has nothing to do with the bank-balance (or lack thereof :-) ... at least when we are dealing with literate women, the kind that can afford and knows how to use a computer. So ... Here's my point : You can be broke or you can be

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More Lenten thoughts. "What are you giving up for Lent ?" I remember the first time I was asked that, and I was sort-of ... flabbergasted. What do you mean ? We don't hold Lent in this country or this church. You don't have to give up anything. Why should you! I mean, that was back in the old days, where people thought you were more righteous if you didn't eat or didn't have sex or .... But we

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Lenten thoughts As many of you will know, I'm a pastor, and as part of my pastoral duties, I teach the confirmands-to-be. This is - at times - a mixed pleasure, or - to put it more bluntly - It is downright awful when the little beasts think that they don't want to learn anything today or just plain check out whether this pastor is as tough as she seems.I'm not a qualified teacher, and it shows

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Those cartoons ... Right now, Danish media - and quite a lot of non-Danish media - is filled with stories about Muslim outrage at a set of cartoons, originally printed in September 2005 in a Danish newspaper. And yesterday, Saturday February 4th, the conflict escalated, when Syrian protesters burned the Danish and the Norwegian Embassy.So, here's this Danish pastor's view. First : The

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Sunday, January 29, 2006Lectionary readings :Isaiah 40:26-31Romans 4:18-22Matthew 14:22-33I'm very late with this one. Sorry, but ... life.Jesus ... and Peter ... walking the stormy waves of lake Kinnereth.It's a very, very well-known image.To walk on water is - at least in this country - synonymous with doing everything right, and getting maximum benefit from it.... which could be said to be

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Sunday, January 22, 2006 Lectionary readings :Genesis 15:1-6Hebrews 11:1-6Luke 17:5-10 (but please read from the beginning of the chapter)A bit messy, particularly since the original (held Sunday) is very much based on some proverbial phrases and puns in my native language.Sometimes I need to read more than just the lectionary-reading to get a handle on what the texts of the day is about. This is

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Sunday, January 15, 2006Readings :Jeremiah 17:12-141st Letter of John 2:28-3:3Gospel of John 4:5-26- - -"Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."- - -It is told, that when everything began, the earth was emptiness and nothing. But God brought a spring of water

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This is born from some correspondence that came after the first "real" post on this re-surrected blog ... and Martha, this is "your fault" really :-) With my former post in mind, are are we now throwing ourselves to the floor, screaming "I wanna !!! " ? Probably not. It is such an ingrained (and important) part of our identities as Christians, that we should "do unto others ..." and that we must

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Good Sunday afternoon.Today's blog is a short sketch of a sermon ... a skeleton, you might say.Today's readings in my corner of Christianity was :Psalm 8Collossians 1:15-19Mark 10:13-16- - -Now, in this corner of Christianity, we baptize children, and we read the passage from Mark every time. It's part of the baptismal readings. This means, that both I and the regular church-goers think we know

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I'm trying this again.With the new year, I'm back at work, so, I might as well try to get back to work on this blog.I have deleted all my old posts, and hope - in the coming year - to fill it up with all sorts of things related to faith and the bible. Things that I find interesting :-)Welcome !

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