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Lent 1B
February 22, 2015
Puls, Joan, "The Journey That Is Metanoia: A Paraphrase of Psalm 25," International Review of Mission, 1983.
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“One more time I stretch my heart to receive your word.”
Mark 1:9-15
- Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Four Stops in the Wilderness," Journal for Preachers, 2001.
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“If you sit still in that desert all by yourself, then you will soon notice a mechanical humming between your ears, roughly equivalent to the sound of a small electric clock. This is the sound of your nervous system at work, with all its elaborate wiring and sparking synapses.”
- Taylor, N.H., "The Temptation of Jesus on the Mountain: A Palestinian Christian Polemic against Agrippa I," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2001.
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“The story of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness originated as a Palestinian Christian response to persecution under Agrippa I during the aftermath of the Caligula crisis (c. 42 CE). Jesus, in isolation from human society, is challenged by Satan but repudiates incitement to idolatry and betrayal of God. In so doing he serves as an antitype to Agrippa, from the perspective of those whom he persecuted. The story is preserved and developed in diverse strands of the Gospel tradition, of which the most elaborate is the triple temptation story in Q.”
- DeMaris, Richard E., "Possession, Good and Bad--Ritual, Effects and Side-Effects: The Baptism of Jesus and Mark 1.9-11 from a Cross-Cultural Perspective," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2000.
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“If egalitarianism was sought, baptism would have hindered it, unless the community undertook ways of altering or nullifying the rite's consequences. The baptismal narrative in Mark may have been just such an attempt, undoing the social consequences of the baptismal rite through the element of reversal.”
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