Thursday, January 26, 2017

week 4

Remember NO terms quiz next week as syllabus suggests.  It is replaced with a multiple choice signs quiz.  Complete quiz...12 items below.  Diana, someone in class will tell you the secret to acing this quiz

Quiz cont.  We haven't explained these signs yet:

Remember this sign that I had you research in class to discover what it was?
It's the soreq/balustrade that was posted outside the Jewish temple.
Read the two links below to learn what it was and to learn what it says. This will help you in our discussion next week on  the Temple Tantrum.

Remember what is says?

http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.html https://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/soreq-temple-courts
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>>The most important thing we did in class is   read through Philemon, and complete all three Philemon worksheets in pairs.  Diana, you may want to do this as we did it (12 minutes each worksheet).
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as a reminder that interpreting songs that are new to you  is great practice in using Three Worlds skills to interpret new texts like Philemon, we listened to and interpreted two versions of this song/
What do you remember?  Try it, Diana

Mechanical errors?:


What do you remember about two buckets?

Click:

questioning the "Two Bucket" Approach to Scripture




Why did we tear a page out of the Bible?


Venn it!
  
"Sleep Like A Baby Tonight"
 
Morning, your toast, your tea and sugar
Read about the politician’s lover
Go through the day like knife through butter
Why don’t you
You dress in the colors of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair
 
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
 
Dreams
It’s a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there’s no daylight, there’s no healing
 
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
 
Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else’s pain
 
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take a flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

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Song 2

Sleep Like A Baby Tonight" version 2 (Alternate Perspective Mix) 
Wake
In the morning when you wake up
You won’t have much
But you’ll have enough
When you are weakest
I’ll be strong enough for you

Dreams
Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
Can’t break what’s broken
You are tearless
Steal back your innocence
That’s what they stole from you

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Stop
Where you stand right now
Just stop
Don’t think or look down at the drop
The people staring from the street
Don’t know what you’ve got

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
No, not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When home is where the war is
Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and so white
There are demons in the broad daylight
You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Where you stand
Where you fall is where I kneel
To take your heart back to where you can feel
Like a child, a child

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We did the entire video on Forum 3 in class:


>>How does the Kingdom "come" from the "future"?:

Many Jews of Jesus' day (and actually, the Greeks) thought of the Kingdom of God as largely a  future identity/reality/location.
So when Jesus, in Matthew 4:17 announces that he, as King, is ALREADY bringing in the Kingdom,
this not only subverted expectations, but sounded crazy....and like he was claiming to bring the future into the present.

The Jews talked often about "this age" (earth/now) and "the age to come." (heaven/future).
"Age to come" was used in a way that it was virtually synonymous with "The Kingdom."

Scripture suggests that:

The "age to come"  (the Kingdom) 
has in large part already come (from the future/heaven)

into "this age"

 (in the present/on the earth


by means of the earthy ministry of Jesus: King of the Kingdom.


Thus, Hebrews 6:4-8 offers that disciples ("tamidim") of Jesus have

"already (in this age) tasted the powers of the age to come."

In Jesus, in large part, the age to come has come.
The Future has visited the present,












"The presence of the Kingdom of God was seen as God’s dynamic reign invading the present age without (completely) transforming it into the age to come ” (George Eldon Ladd, p.149, The Presence of the Future.)







>>How does the Kingdom "come" from the " past"?:
In light of  (and in spite of ) everything we just said  there also  WAS a sense  in which the Jews believed  that --in a  limited but vital way--- the Kingdom had begun on earth..  at a specific Old Testament  time and place... and worked "forwards" from there.
Thus today's video field trip..


Today's video on The Exodus and the "Dance Party on the Beach" is online on Forum 3/  The points to remember are how this was the seminal/foundational/formative microcosmic event of   (perhaps all) Scripture, in that:

1)It presents a pattern and prototype of any deliverance from bondage/slavery; and every "way out" (Ex-Odus)
from an old way/world to a new way/world.  We had some good discussion about "in-between times" in our lives that we recognized  (maybe only in retrospect) as pivotal  and formative.  Crossing the sea is often meant to call to mind crossing a barrier (remember the Jordan River video from Week One) into a while new world, creation  or order; from allegiance to forbidden gods to The One God.  Jesus is seen in Matthew as the New Moses in that just as Moses led God's people out of bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Pharoah) and an empire that infected them (Egypt), so Jesus leads God;s people out of spiritual bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Herod) and an empire that infected them (Rome).  This is a classic intertexting/hyperlinking/parallelism.

2)It is really the first time God's people are formed/forged into a community; they have "been through stuff together" and are inevitably bonded and changed through a corporate experience.  Thus:

3)Also, remember  (for the test) the Jewish tradition that the Kingdom of God functionally, and for all practical purposes began (or landed in a foundational way on earth) when God's people there on the beach danced and sang, "The Lord is reigning" ( Exodus 15:18 )...remembering that "reigning" could be translated "King" or "Reigner".  Thus, God's Kingship "began" when God's people publicly recognized it after seeing God in action in dramatic way as King.  Vander Laan: "The Kingdom begins when God acts"

...Exodus 15:18:
  • "The Lord is                           reigning from this point onward."
  • "The Lord is   King      from this point onward."
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The key place for Israel; the seminal event, the central memory  in the Jewish mind in Jesus' day, was

The dance party on the beach. 



The very place the Kingdom began.
As a 'beach-head," if you will. 

I'm glad no one has built a taco stand there..

Here it is..



The Jews believed  that --in a  limited but vital way--- the Kingdom had begun on earth..  at a specific Old Testament  time and place... and worked "forwards" from there.  Even though this "seminal event": (Van DerLaan's phrase) happened 1000+ years before Jesus, and no one  alive in Jesus' day was there when  it happened, it was as if they were.  Common memory.




  to The Exodus and the "Dance Party on the Beach." This video, which we will draw from all semester is not online in any form (though you can buy it as episode 5 on this DVD).    The points to remember are how this was the seminal/foundational/formative microcosmic event of   (perhaps all) Scripture, in that:

1)It presents a pattern and prototype of any deliverance from bondage/slavery; and every "way out" (Ex-Odus)
from an old way/world to a new way/world.  We had some good discussion about "in-between times" in our lives that we recognized  (maybe only in retrospect) as pivotal  and formative.  Crossing the sea is often meant to call to mind crossing a barrier (remember the Jordan River video from Week One) into a while new world, creation  or order; from allegiance to forbidden gods to The One God.  Jesus is seen in Matthew as the New Moses in that just as Moses led God's people out of bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king"  and an empire that infected them (Egypt), so Jesus leads God's people out of spiritual bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Herod) and an empire that infected them (Rome).  This is a classic intertexting/hyperlinking/parallelism.
  

2)It is really the first time God's people are formed/forged into a community; they have "been through stuff together" and are inevitably bonded and changed through a corporate experience.   They have experienced "communitas" and "liminality"  (both terms will be on exams) together.. Thus:

3)Also, remember  (for the test) the Jewish tradition that the Kingdom of God functionally, and for all practical purposes, began (or landed in a foundational way on earth) when God's people there on the beach danced and sang, "The Lord is reigning" ( Exodus 15:18 )...remembering that "reigning" could be translated "King" or "Reigner".  Thus, God's Kingship "began" when God's people publicly recognized it after seeing God in action in dramatic way as King.  Vander Laan: "The Kingdom begins when God acts"

...Exodus 15:18:

  • "The Lord is                   reigning from this point onward."
  • "The Lord is   King      from this point onward."
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Remember this sign that I had you research in class to discover what it was?
It's the soreq that was posted outside the Jewish temple.
Read the two links below to learn what it was and to learn what it says. This will help you in your Moodle assignment on the Temple Tantrum.

http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.html https://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/soreq-temple-courts

Remember this new sign i showed you at the end:

Intertextuality/Hyperlinking: one text quotes another text  Jesus says "My God, why have you forsaken me?" in Matt  27:46,  referencing Psalm 22:1.  See Chris Harrisson's rainbow in "Visualizing the Bible"
click:
http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/BibleViz




Remember: we read through Psalm 22, and you can use that as your signature text instead of Philemon

 

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