What happened at Sinai? This question faces us throughout the Deuteronomy narrative, and this week is our introduction to the Deuteronomist's retelling of the Exodus tradition. In John's gospel we're facing another perspective on John's Christology and theology - what are we to make of the Comforter passage?

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It's also our final week in Proverbs this year. We have one final chapter with Madam Folly and Lady Wisdom, and we try to shed some baggage as we read the so-called poem of the 'virtuous woman/wife'.

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References

Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1906). A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, re-printed with corrections (1951). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Haenchen, Ernst (1980); tr. Funk, Robert W. (1984). John 2: A Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapters 7–21, Hermeneia — A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press.
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Swanson, James (2001). A Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Hebrew (Old Testament), Second Edition. PLACE: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
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Tigay, Jeffrey H. (1996). Deuteronomy, The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society.
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Links

Love Rinse Repeat, episode #26: What Happened at Sinai? with Dr Benjamin D. Sommer

episode #36: imagination and growth (2018/10/21), including a look at John 15

episode #8: patterns and participation (2017/10/22), featuring John 17

New Testament Review, episode #19: GEM de Ste Croix, Why Were The Early Christians Persecuted?

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Deuteronomy 4, Deuteronomy 5, Proverbs 31, Proverbs 30, John 15, John 16, John 17, JPSTORAHDEU, DBLHEBR, BDB, HRMNEIA64BJN