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Textweek/ATLAS links: Proper 6 Ordinary 11 Pentecost +4 June 16, 2013

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Proper 6C / Ordinary 11C / Pentecost +4

June 16, 2013

Lindvall, Michael, "Scandalous Behavior," The Christian Century, 2004.
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"The woman, in contrast, offers Jesus a hospitality that is all about Jesus. It is oriented toward him, not her. There is no theological dinner talk, only her act of utter, off-putting, self-yielding devotion. She needs Jesus not to round out her personal spirituality but so she can become whole, the human being she was created to be."

Reid, Barbara E., "'Do You See This Woman?' Luke 7:36-50 as a Paradigm for Feminist Hermeneutics, Biblical Research, 1995.
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"The focus of Luke 7:36-50 is not Jesus' forgiveness of the woman but the interaction between Jesus and Simon. Can Simon be led to see the woman differently and so perceive Jesus rightly? Modern readers are also challenged to re-examine their presuppositions: is the woman a prostitute or one who prefigures the Christ."

Resseguie, James L., "Luke 7:36-50, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1992.
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"A host invites Jesus to dinner and thoughtlessly receives his guest as a stranger. A woman intrudes and performs a striking display of thoughtful-ness that marks the appreciation of a hostess who is especially indebted to her guest. The "normal," routine response to the intrusion is made to seem odd, and the "unusual," affectionate display of gratitude is made to seem natural. In this way the Lukan story illustrates a pattern common to the Gospels: The familiar is made to seem strange—and the strange familiar."

 

Walsh, Jerome T., "Methods and Meanings: Multiple Studies of 1 Kings 21,"Journal of Biblical Literature, 1992.
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"Stylistic analysis reveals that the murder of Naboth and Jezebel's role in it are emblems for the larger crime of Ahab's idolatry under Jezebel's influence. Syntagmatic analysis points to the role of law and of religious observance, two sources of societal stability, as victims of royal violence and manipulation. Paradigmatic analysis reveals the story as meta-story, in that the act of telling the story becomes necessary to completing it."

Brueggemann, Walter, "On Trust and Freedom: A Study of Faith in the Succession Narrative," Interpretation, 1972.
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"David and the other actors in this narrative have enormous power and freedom to act, but they are not free to act as though Yahweh were not there."

Textweek ATLAS links June 9, 2013 Proper 5C Ordinary 10C Pentecost +3

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Proper 5C / Ordinary 10C / Pentecost +3

June 9, 2013

Dyrness, William, "Two Widows as Role Models," The Christian Century, 1994.
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"That little bit of oil and flour, like the boy's loaves and fishes and the widow's mite, have become powerfully symbolic of the way resources expand when they are given up freely to God as evidence of our dependence on grace. They stand as reminders that when these things are given to God, the source of all good gifts, his provision is assured."

Evans, Craig A., "Luke's Use of the Elijah/Elisha Narratives and the Ethic of Election," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1987.

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"The inclusion of the clause 'the dead are raised up' provides a close link between the miracle at Nain and the programmatic Nazareth sermon, and so lends further support to the conclusion that election issues are present in this pericope as well. "

Gomes, Peter J., "Veterans and Stewards," The Christian Century, 1997.

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"We are told that people do not like to be grateful, and gratitude is the coldest of the virtues: it implies an obligation. We who reap the benefits of peace are of necessity grateful for those who risked their lives on our behalf, but there is always an ambiguity in our remembrance of what we owe them. Stewardship, rightly understood, proceeds not from what we give to God but from what God has given to us. We are embarrassed and a little nervous at the thought that what we 'have' is not ours to 'keep' but only to give."

Neumark, Heidi, "The Widow's Hand," The Christian Century, 2000.
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"The open hand of a poor woman is what sets a miracle in motion."

Textweek ATLAS links June 2, 2013 Proper 4C Ordinary 9C Pentecost +2

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Proper 4C / Ordinary 9C / Pentecost +2

June 2, 2013

Streufert, Mary J., "An Affinity for Difference: a Theology of Power,"Currents in Theology and Mission, 2010.
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"Although difference is the gift and the heart of creation itself, we humans use power both to create further difference and to abuse difference."

Neumark, Heidi, "Kitchen Drama," Currents in Theology and Mission, 2009.
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"Perhaps Jesus had hesitations in his own mind about crossing the boundaries he was crossing, worrying, as we do at times, if all hell will break loose if we break with certain long-held practices and policies. "

Hicks, Jane E., "Moral Agency at the Borders: Rereading the Story of the Syrophoenecian Woman," Word & World, 2003.

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"Was the Syrophoenician woman a person of low position seeking sustenance or an urban member of the ruling class seeking advantage? Our reading will be informed by our own situation. In our approach to Jesus, we can be the Syrophoenician woman as we risk solidarity and difference."

Glancy, Jennifer A., "Jesus, the Syrophoenician Woman, and Other First Century Bodies," Biblical Interpretation, 2010.
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"Social identity is embodied identity. Therefore, in order to come to terms with cultural complexity, we must come to terms with the implications of embodiment. Attention to corporal performance of social identity is critical to the project of intersectional theory."

 

Textweek ATLAS links June 2, 2013 Proper 4C Ordinary 9C Pentecost +2

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

http://www.textweek.com/yearc/properc4.htm

Proper 4C / Ordinary 9C / Pentecost +2

June 2, 2013

Streufert, Mary J., "An Affinity for Difference: a Theology of Power,"Currents in Theology and Mission, 2010.
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"Although difference is the gift and the heart of creation itself, we humans use power both to create further difference and to abuse difference."

Neumark, Heidi, "Kitchen Drama," Currents in Theology and Mission, 2009.
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"Perhaps Jesus had hesitations in his own mind about crossing the boundaries he was crossing, worrying, as we do at times, if all hell will break loose if we break with certain long-held practices and policies. "

Hicks, Jane E., "Moral Agency at the Borders: Rereading the Story of the Syrophoenecian Woman," Word & World, 2003.

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"Was the Syrophoenician woman a person of low position seeking sustenance or an urban member of the ruling class seeking advantage? Our reading will be informed by our own situation. In our approach to Jesus, we can be the Syrophoenician woman as we risk solidarity and difference."

Glancy, Jennifer A., "Jesus, the Syrophoenician Woman, and Other First Century Bodies," Biblical Interpretation, 2010.
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"Social identity is embodied identity. Therefore, in order to come to terms with cultural complexity, we must come to terms with the implications of embodiment. Attention to corporal performance of social identity is critical to the project of intersectional theory."

 

Textweek ATLAS links May 26, 2013 Trinity Sunday

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Trinity Sunday

May 26, 2013

Dana, MaryAnn McKibben, "Suffering, Endurance, Character, Hope, Romans 5:1-11," Journal for Preachers, 2005.
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"All this seeking after virtue leaves us empty. Empty...so that God's love can be poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit— so that we can be filled by that. God's love cannot be poured into us when we' re already full of virtues and plans and answers. We must be empty."

 

Gathercole, Simon, "Romans 1-5 and the 'Weak' and the 'Strong': Pauline Theoloy, Pastoral Rhetoric, and the Purpose of Romans," Review & Expositor, 2003.
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"This essay seeks to identify how Paul responds to the problems in the situation in the Roman churches, and in so doing, to identify aspects of the relation between Paul's theology and his pastoral method. First, the pastoral context of the conflict in the Roman church is identified. The parties are seen to divide broadly, though not strictly, along Jew-gentile lines. Paul's responses to the problems in Romans 14:1-15:6 are then examined, and here Paul is seen to contrast that which is simply part of the nuts and bolts of everyday living (eating, drinking, etc) with that which has implications for eschatological judgment (such as judging and despising). Then Romans 1-5 are examined for the way in which these chapters anticipate Paul's arguments in Romans 14-15, and it is seen that at every stage in the earlier chapters Paul has at least one eye on the problematic situation in Rome."

 

Harrisville, Roy A., "Romans 5:1-5, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1991.
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"It should be clear: Faith is the primary Christian virtue, faith by which we have been "rightwised" and put at peace, on account of Christ who has given us entre to "this grace," this "spontaneous, unmerited, and uncaused" favor of God; faith that moves us to boast in sufferings, which not only mark our existence with the crucified but are the inevitable prelude to glory. Of this faith love is the guarantee. It is not the other way around."

 

 

Berge, Paul S. "Easter to Trinity with the Gospel of John: Bearing Witness to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit," Word & World, 1998. Commentary on this text begins on page 215.
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"There are nine future tense verbs in 16:13-15, which define the revealing and continuing work of the Spirit of truth."

 

Mack, Burton L., "Wisdom Myth and Mytho-logy: An Essay in Understanding a Theological Tradition," Interpretation, 1970.
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"The burning question of theodicy, raised by the cruel realities of the exile and its aftermath, drove the wisdom schools to creative theological work. By using the graphic language of wisdom mythology, the affirmation of Yahweh's lordship over the entire order of creation is made in such a way that the exile can now be seen to demand faith rather than resignation."