JSB – Week 3 reading

You weren’t kidding when you mentioned that some of the reading may challenge us. The first few pages of the reading for this week has really struck me. The author of the essay says that the Exodus account in the Bible “…must have involved fewer people than the exaggerated biblical numbers… Given the lack of historical data, it is impossible to say more,” (JSB p. 2050). He mentions that fact that their is little extra-biblical information on some of the events/names/places that are mentioned in the Bible. He is well-researched and knowledgable I’m sure by I am curious if he is venturing too far from the basis of our relationship with God… faith. It seems to me like he is very quick to discredit some of the scriptures for their lack of support in secular sources. I am anxious to read the rest of the assigned reading and see what else strikes a nerve.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. He is presenting his case and I just want to hear what some of you other folks are thinking.

Traveling

I going to NY in the morning and on to Prague for the International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Congress.  I will be presenting a paper jointly with my daughter on the relevance of Bonhoeffer’s theology for ecology.

I’m not sure if I will have internet access or not–so you may or may not hear from me over the next ten days.

If any of you have still not figured out how to make a post, go ahead and write a comment–you can attach it to this post–or any other as far as that goes.

Meanwhile, this is week 3, so you should be on Lesson 3 if you are trying to stay on schedule.

Also, just checking to make sure–do the page numbers for JSB make sense–just in case the pages are different in your edition.  I’m going to check to night and include the title of the chapters in the JSB.