David Mapugilo
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 3: SESSION 16: How Hebrew Parallelism Works
Biblical writers frequently weave parallelism into their poetry, prompting readers to set two or more ideas side by side to see how they relate. At its heart, parallelism is both comparison and analogy: it conveys that to truly comprehend something, you must view…
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 3: Man and Woman Created and Unified
SESSION 15: The Man and the Woman as One Flesh
This all began in Genesis 1:18 where God said it is not tov for the human to be alone. Later on God created a woman using a rib of a man and when the man saw him he said “this is the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. Literary it…
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 3: SESSION 15: Relationship Between Days
In the creation narrative, days one through three establish the environments God forms, while days four through six fill those spaces with inhabitants. The structure follows an ABC A’B’C’ pattern: day one pairs with day four, day two with day five, and day three with day six.…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 3: SESSION 15: Common Poetic Conventions in Biblical Hebrew
Poetry is a form of communication that invites the reader into a partnership with the written word in order to discover its meaning, and learning the function of repetition and literary design is the most fundamental tool for reading and…
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 2: SESSION 14: The Tree of Knowing Good and Bad
The knowledge of good and bad is not an immoral thing that God wants to keep from humans. When the phrase is used elsewhere in the Bible, it indicates moral maturity. This tree doesn’t represent knowledge; it represents the choice to trust God or not. Will humans let God be their…
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I value the view that is expressed in the statement “will humans let God be their source of wisdom and knowledge”
How very interesting it is that the thing that was chosen and also to some extent the reason for sin has become the choice we have to make.
To choose our own knowledge above God’s knowledge or to accept His knowledge and wisdom… Read more- View 1 reply
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 3: SESSION 14: Repeated Words in Genesis 1
Repeated words are a common literary device that authors use to structure their text and communicate their message. For a better understanding of the Bible we have to pay attention to which words are repeated, how many times they are repeated, and where they occur. For…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 3: Interpreting Hebrew Poetry
SESSION 14: How Biblical Poetry Communicates
The biblical poetry works in form of repetitions to insist on matters of importance referring God using a worldly view. Some words keeps on being repeated to insist the next major action for instance in Psalms 29 you find the word…
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 2: SESSION 13: The Human’s Priestly Role and Divine Command
The description of the role of humanity in the garden, to “work and to keep” it, is priestly language, and it introduces the theme of the one who stands in the place of the many. God’s command concerning the two trees at the center of the garden begins with a…
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We can read the bible many time and it is always as if there is someone new to learn that we previously had not noticed. Just a small part like “work and to keep” can reveal and bring something new to our understanding. Amazing.
May God bless you.
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 3: The Literary Design of Genesis 1
SESSION 13: The Structure and Message of Genesis 1
The six days of creation are framed by summary statements (1:1; 2:1) and descriptions (1:2; 2:2-3) that bring us from chaos to completion. Both parts of the frame begin with a summary about how God created “the skies and the land” (1:1…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 2: SESSION 13: The Different “Encyclopedias” of Authors and Readers
Surely somebody needs to understand that the author and a reader are coming from different perspectives where there is an “encyclopedia” of the author the so called “encyclopedia of production and also there is an “encyclopedia” of the…
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