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Lent 5B
March 25, 2012
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Rhymer, David, "Between Text & Sermon: Jeremiah 31:31-34," Interpretetation, 2005.
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“This remarkable verse, often (mis) appropriated by Christian commentators to provide support for New Testament ideas of ‘knowing God,’ is all the more remarkable when considered in its proper context—a prophetic imagining of a post-exilic community where knowledge of God (through the "internalized" Torah) is shared by all without any intermediary teaching authority.”
- Harrelson, Walter, "How to Interpret the Old Testament: The Central Issue between Christians and Jews," Review & Expositor, 2006.
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Abstract: “This essay has two parts. After a brief historical sketch of Christian anti-Judaism, we turn to the major issue in Christian relations with Judaism and the Jewish people: how we Christians understand and use the Jewish Bible—our Old Testament. In the first section we deal in particular with misreadings of the Old Testament and how we might interpret Jewish scripture more accurately and fairly. In the second part we call attention to themes and teachings in the Jewish scriptures (the Christian Old Testament) that are, in my judgment, central and vital to Christian faith, elements held in common with Judaism.”
Hebrews 5:5-10
- Long, Thomas G., "What God Wants," The Christian Century, 2006.
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“It was not pain and violence that God desired, but human life as it was created to be.”
John 12:20-33
O'Day, Gail R., "Piety without Pretense, Faith without Falsehood: The Lenten Journey according to John," Journal for Preachers, 1997.
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The section covering this text begins on page 12. “In order to understand Jesus' teachings in this lesson, it is important to remember that in the Gospel of John, ‘glorification’ refers to Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension. The arrival of the hour in which the Son of Man will be glorified, then, means the arrival of the hour in which Jesus will die, and the final acts of his mission in the world will be played out.”
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