This Week's Scriptures

Update on Scripture read in class--

Intro to OT
7/15 Josh 1:1-9
7/17 Num 6:22-27

Pentateuch
7/15 Gen 1:24-2:4a
7/17 Num 6:22-27

I justified doubling up the priestly blessing in Numbers because it fits the chief criterion for a Pentateuch reading, namely, that it comes from the Pentateuch. But the readings for Intro to OT can come from anywhere in the canon, which is why I've been in the Psalms (23 and 121), Joshua, and Numbers, and I'm now working on a reading from Ecclesiastes (perhaps I'll be ready to roll that one out on Tuesday). Most of the time, my courses should be set up so two of them can take a reading from anywhere, and the third from the literature under discussion in the course. So readings for Old Testament Theology and Biblical Hebrew can come from anywhere, but readings for Historical Books only from the Deuteronomistic History.

Class discussions have been very good, even spilling out onto the steps after Pentateuch class today. I wish someone had been there to take a picture; it would've made a great shot for the school website. ;-)