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Lent 5C
March 13, 2016
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Abstract: "'Judas Game' injects the modern conceptual framework of evolutionary theory and mythology into the discussion of biblical mythology (i.e., the literary reflections of evolving biblical worldviews). Both modern and biblical thought are contoured by a physical and biological pre-history of billions of years. Humans' psychological inheritance is as old and layered as any geological group in the Canadian Rockies. In the light of the last century's accumulating knowledge of this past, certain puzzles of biblical mythology can be clarified. The article takes the example of Judas in the Gospel of John. Judas's paradoxical, troubling role is a conglomerate of our evolved psychological inheritance, clearly visible in the ancient Near Eastern combat myth, and John's theology of providence, itself overlying deeper strata. The argument is based on close reading of literary parallels between John 11 and 12."
Michaels, J. Ramsey, "Expository Article: John 12:1-11," Interpretation, 1989.
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"Disciples normally washed the feet of their teachers, even as servants did for their masters, wives for their husbands, or children for their fathers. The Gospel writer has first presented the normal procedure of a disciple washing the feet of her teacher (though the extravagance of a whole pint of expensive perfume was hardly "normal"!), and has used it to anticipate the reversal of normal procedure in Jesus' unforgettable act of washing the feet of his disciples. Mary's act is remarkable for its reckless extravagance, Jesus' act for its reversal of expected roles."
Long, Thomas G., "Gospel Sound Track," The Christian Century, 2001.
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"As the Gospel writer reminds us with his asides, deeper truths shine through the mundane events of life."
Simmons, Elizabeth McGregor, "The Sense of Text: An Invitation to Lenten Preaching," Journal for Preachers, 2004.
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This text (John 12) is explored on page 9: 'The Sense of Scent'. "I can't imagine preaching on John 12:1-8 in a setting with no candles, scented or otherwise."
Hays, Richard B., "Eyes on the Prize," The Christian Century, 1992.
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"Having lost his credibility within the socioreligious structure of Jewish culture, Paul has become a disreputable traveling preacher, trying to stay one jump ahead of the authorities. This letter, however, shows that he was not always successful: it is written from a prison cell. But does Paul look back nostalgically on his former life? No, he says, 'I consider it all crap.' (The Greek word is sky-bala, 'dung'; the KJV, with Elizabethan frankness, preserves the unsavory sense.)"
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