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June 10, 2012
Proper 5 / Ordinary Time 10 / Pentecost +2
Fretheim, Terence E., "Is Genesis 3 a Fall Story?" Word
& World, 1994.
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“I return to the question of the ‘fall’ as a metaphor for
what happens in this text (whether it is a legitimate metaphor apart from this
text is a larger issue). At least two issues present themselves: (1) the congruence
of this metaphor with those in the text; (2) the idea of this sin as a decisive
rupture in the history of the God-human relationship.”
Miller, Patrick, "Psalm 130," Interpretation,
1979.
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“The Psalm speaks out of the paradoxical but very real and
human experience of an encounter with God that is the source of the despair in
the depths and at the same time the only way out.”
Fredrickson, David, "Pentecost: Paul the Pastor in 2
Corinthians," Word & World, 1991.
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“What accounts for Paul's insistence that human existence
is, even in the transformation worked by the Spirit, always given in a body?
Certainly, his Judaism is part of the answer. Yet notice also the role of the
body in the eschatological judgment envisioned in 5:10…”
Busch, Austin, "Questioning and Conviction: Double-voiced
Discourse in Mark 3:22-30," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2006.
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“Mark is not ultimately interested in settling these
questions to establish that God and his representatives are, in the end,
unambiguously good and holy. He rather recognizes that the problems latent in
the apocalyptic eschatological world-view that he holds, especially the
"Holy" Spirit's willingness to cooperate with demons hostile to God
and to God's Son (1:10-13), raise troubling and irresolvable questions about
the character of God and Jesus. But despite the evangelist's commitment to
skeptical interrogation of Jesus's ministry and message in a Jewish apocalyptic
eschatological context, Mark will not go so far as to reject Jesus outright as
a representative of Satan.”
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