Notes for 9/2/08

Played see it when I believe it by dogs o peace.

Name exorcises involving finding and thinking about names of god in the bible.

Analogies of fath
Scrabble
Parameters
- words
- direction is open
- set of rules and materials
- Luck involved

Jigsaw puzzle
- Fixed outcome

Basketball game
- Rules don’t dictate how game is played, game can change while still being legal and consistent with the rules of the game.
- “play above the rim”
dogma

documentary hypothesis

J = Yhwh Yahwist – anthropomorphic
E = elohim (plural) Elohist – less
P = Preistly Preistly -preist liturgy
D = Deuteronomist Law


When we read the bible we tend to focus on what the bible says for a /truesimple straightforward meaning. And we try to find what the bible can tell us about god.

Ways to read bible
Literal
Tropological
Allegorically

homework
Read 20 verses in song of Solomon and write in journal about it.
Is it as an allegory for the love of Christ’s church, should we read it Allegorically?

I say literally and allegorically. Hosea uses only one form of the word love, the word does not change when he talks about God or Gomer his wife, so if we think of the book Hosea as a sort of Rosetta stone of old testament, we realize that much of the old testment is told in a material way which humans can relate to. If an ancient Hebrew wanted to talk about God he would probably tell a story using human experiences to get a point across as it is the only thing we can fully comprehend.