Studying RCL 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:
Proper 28 / Ordinary 33 / Pentecost 25
November 15, 2015
Fair, Fairfax Fullerton, "Between Text and Sermon: Mark 13:1-8,"Interpretation, 2004. (See also entire issue: Violence in the Bible,Interpretation, 2004.)
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"In our world of over-consumption and worship of material wealth, isn't this perspective relevant to us? In our society that measures a person's worth by the size of homes, cars, and stadium suites, how can we fault Jesus' disciples? The preacher has a wonderful opportunity to draw parallels between the disciples' infatuation wiht the massive structure of the temple and our fascination with what is bigger, faster, and more ostentatious..."
Peters, Mark Allen, "Hebrews 10:19-25," Interpretation, 1999.
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"We gather to worship God because God has given us the privilege of doing so and the means by which we may. For the early Hebrews the means was the cultus. For the Hebrews of this letter, that is, for early Christians, as for modern Christians, the means is the atoning death of Jesus Christ."
Menaul, Marjorie, "Between Text & Sermon: 1 Samuel 1 & 2," Interpretation, 2001. See also the rest of this issue: The Child, Interpretation, 2001.
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"In the first two chapters of 1 Samuel, the personal fortunes of the main characters, Hannah and Eli, undergo a striking reversal. Eli, whose status as priest should make him a respected and positive figure, will show himself instead to be inept and ineffective. In contrast, Hannah, a woman with an insecure future, will prove herself to be a personal of integrity and strength."
Lindenberger, James M., "Expository Article: Daniel 12:1-4," Interpretation, 1985.
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"What are we to do with a theology which says - and does not Daniel say it - that life in this world is so bad that God's purposes can be realized only beyond this life?"
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