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 12B / Ordinary 17B / Pentecost +9
July 26, 2015
Brueggemann, Walter, "Life and Death in Tenth Century Israel," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1972.
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EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials“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.”
Chankin-Gould, J D'ror, Derek Hutchinson, David Hilton Jackson, Tyler D Mayfield, Leah Rediger Schulte, Tammi J Schneider, E. Winkelman, "The Sanctified 'Adulteress' and Her Circumstantial Clause: Bathsheba's Bath and Self-Consecration in 2 Samuel 11," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2008.
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“The author of Kings ultimately proves Bathsheba's status as a clean, sanctified, legitimate mother of Israel (see 1 Kgs 1.15-40); it is she, at the instigation of Nathan, who successfully enthrones her son, the next Israelite king.”
Harrell, Daniel M., "Living by the Word: 2 Samuel 11:1-15, John 6:1-21," The Christian Century, 2009.
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“If Jesus had given in to fame, he could have gotten around the cross.”
Yee, Gale A., "'Fraught with Background,' Literary Ambiguity in II Samuel 11," Interpretation, 1988.
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“Narrative ambiguity is a deliberate stylistic device which engages the reader, seizes the imaginative processes, and creates an interaction with the characters of the story that a more explicitly detailed account does not allow to happen.”
Jarvis, Cynthia A., "Ephesians 3:14-21, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1991.
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“In this time when wars and rumors of war abound, when hostilities are deepened because the economy is depressed, when the facts of our lives would lead us to conclude that there are irreconcilable differences among those who call upon the same God, when little minds continue to claim that they alone know the dimensions and limits of Christ's compassion, a preacher would do well to attend to this text, tracing Paul's reason back to the foundation of the world when, without distinction, God destined, in love, every family in heaven and on earth to be God's children through Jesus Christ.”
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