David Mapugilo
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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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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 2: SESSION 11: The Hebrew Bible as a Mosaic
Reading the narrative of hyperlinking of the Hebrew Bible l think the hyperlinking is very necessary for a better understanding. My thinking is for instance, David was not the first King of Israel therefore it required you reading the story of Samuel then how…
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ADAM TO NOAH
MODULE 2: SESSION 10: Literary Design in Genesis 2: 4-17
The writings in Genesis 2: 4-17 have been designed in a repetitive style linking each a every line with a verb interlinked to each other. You find a narrative starting with Human then garden then human, afterward garden or waters, human and garden, waters and finally human…
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HEAVEN AND EARTH
MODULE 2; session 10: The Beginning and Nothingness
According to John Walton there is an ancient Near Eastern cosmology, the “cosmic sea” which belongs to the pre-creation state, and this is a neutral, functionless state of non-organization and lifelessness.
Further, this explains about the reshit as used in the book of Genesis…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 2: SESSION 10: The Origin of the Bible from Historical Perspective
The most important thing for people to understand about the compositional process of the Bible or about the nature of the Bible as human and divine is that the Bible is the collection of preexisting material that have been brought into…
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
MODULE 2: SESSION 9: What the Prophets Say About the Bible’s Origin
Genesis 1 and 2 relates to one another in such a way that both of them explains the creation of heaven and earth and everything in it. The Genesis 1 acts as a portrait, depicting what is going to happen, in fact it is a pictorial presentation or…
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