“You are enough,” or something like it is a proclamation which I am sure you have heard before, if not often. In our individualistic, Western society, this sort of messaging that we are “good enough” or we are “worthy,” permeates our media: whether it be in cinema, where the protagonist needs to learn to “believe…
Tag: jesus
A Thought on the Massacre of the Innocents in History
Τότε Ἡρῴδης ἰδὼν ὅτι ἐνεπαίχθη ὑπὸ τῶν μάγων ἐθυμώθη λίαν, καὶ ἀποστείλας ἀνεῖλεν πάντας τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς ἐν Βηθλέεμ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ὁρίοις αὐτῆς ἀπὸ διετοῦς καὶ κατωτέρω, κατὰ τὸν χρόνον ὃν ἠκρίβωσεν παρὰ τῶν μάγων. τότε ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ἰερεμίου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος, Φωνὴ ἐν Ῥαμὰ ἠκούσθη, κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὀδυρμὸς πολύς· Ῥαχὴλ…
On the Genre of Genesis 1
At least among popular level discussion, the question of genre for the first chapter of Genesis is quite a charged one. Surely, depending on the reader’s background, he already has in his mind a forceful answer to this question: “it’s obviously history!” “it’s obviously poetry!” …or something else. Stepping back for a moment, doesn’t that…