resist (2019/11/10)
The prophets in the Hebrew Bible urge the people of God to resist empire, but maybe they also confront their own community's traditions in search of better ways of worshiping and knowing God. In Ezra and Hosea this week, we're encouraged to see resistance as a mechanism of active change - and the prophets are nothing if not agents of change.
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I didn't get to the New Testament this week, but a bit of extra time for our first week of the year in the Minor Prophets (known as The Twelve in Hebrew tradition) is a fair trade-off. Our chapter, Hosea 6, really epitomises the literary and rhetorical styles - and the theological themes - that we'll be exploring in the Old Testament through to the end of the year.
We also make it into the Deuterocanon this week, which is always fun.
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