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Reading strategies 25 Aug 2013 | 04:06 am
I have been reading with great delight Psalms through the Centuries by Susan Gillingham. This book summarizes in just over 300 pages the reception history of the psalms under five broad headings: com...
Psalm 109 - Theology 21 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Nice place to start, eh? Maybe you have not read Psalm 109 recently. In some Psalters, it is truncated to 15 verses with the guts removed, Hebrew verses 6 to 20. The situation is in fact far more tha...
What questions should a theology of the Psalms ask? 21 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
I have been tossing about some ideas on a theology of the Psalms. Some questions occurred to me who are the players and actors in the Psalms? who rules? what is the city? what is the produce, and whe...
Google+ and comments 19 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
Google + comments on this blog have all disappeared since I have reverted to Blogger comments. Google's motto was 'do no evil'. In the case of comments, they have failed to do good. Sorry about conver...
Faith and its expression 14 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
At great risk of displaying my foolishness, I am stimulated by two posts from people I have never met in person to form a statement of faith that expresses something. Each post asks "Where should a st...
Reading about illuminated Psalters 13 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
Detail of fol. 135r, illustrating Psalm 77. This is the Eadwine Psalter, the first translation of the Psalter into Old English - let's see... hmmm not very useful The Eadwine Psalter The Anglo-Cata...
How long can you maintain radio silence? 11 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Or how long can I keep silent when reading? re Terrien, (Terrien, Samuel. (2003). The Psalms, Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary.) I remain mystified by his strophic structure. His notes ...
Radio opera - The Wandering Jew by Robert Saxton 10 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
Robert Saxton is footnoted in Susan Gillingham's reception history of Psalm 137 - a hard hitting section of the book Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms. Particularly interesting is the seco...
Political and social consequences of believing in God 8 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
Whoa - Bob - too big a title - and you are supposed to be reading. Yes, I am reading and listening (with half an ear) to George Caird, and I just found his short commentary on St Luke (Penguin Books ...
Reading, reading reading, and listening 7 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
I am not writing (!) I will spend a month in my discernment period, reading and listening. Here's the reading list so far - help me add to it if you like. Terrien, A strophic and theological comment...
