David Mapugilo
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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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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 2: SESSION 12: Garden Imagery in the Ancient Near East
The garden of Eden represents the space where Heaven and Earth overlap. It is the dynamism that reminds us in positioning of God’s place of dwelling in connection to human beings. Garden imagery is also used in other ancient Near Eastern iconography to represent divine…
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 2: SESSION 12: Genesis 1 Imagery in Psalm 104
According to Psalm 104, creation is more about giving order, purpose, and function than it is about material origins . This creation exercise is ongoing, sustaining work and it can be used to describe the beginning, the middle, and the whole sustaining process. However,…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 2: SESSION 12: The Hebrew Bible is Like an Aspen Grove
The Hebrew Bible can be likened to both a quilt and to an aspen grove in such a way that a quilt refers to different patches of clothes passed down to generations and forming one items. These patches represents different times and people but…
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 2: SESSION 11: Humans Formed from the Dust
I learnt something interesting that the emphasis of Genesis 2 when God forms the human from the dust signifies that they are from the realm of frail mortality. That means to have an eternal life there is a need of imposition of something else into the equation of human creation.…
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 2: SESSION 11: Genesis 1 Imagery in Jeremiah 4
The words used to describe the pre-creation state in Genesis—tohu va-vohu—mean “wild and waste” (e.g., Jer. 4:23). Wild and waste, darkness, and the deep waters are images for the pre-creation state of non-order. Jeremiah is activating day one of Genesis but reversing it. He’s…
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