Last Tuesday we joined lasagna (and several other tasty items) with Old Testament discussion in the PIU Old Testament Survey class. As has been the custom in most of my seminary classes, we have a couple of the class sessions around the dinner table. Usually the dinner classes are the wide-ranging discussion sessions and this was no exception. We have just finished the historical section of the OT and are beginning the wisdom/poetical books. So the discussion was a summary of the historical and introduction to wisdom literature. We discussed the differences between the way history was written in the ancient Near East and the way it is written today, the relationship between Deuteronomy and the Joshua-Kings narratives, and the “big message” that the writers wanted Israel and us to learn. All this discussion took place as we ate lasagna, salad, French bread and several excellent desserts. Life doesn’t get much better than that.
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OT Survey class began the day after graduation on May 10. We have 6 class sessions and a weekly on-line class forum. In addition, each student must write 4 book analyses, 3 theological book summaries, 2 book sermons and 2 background papers. Six students are taking the class this time. We always have a couple extra people show up for the dinner discussions. The class will end in the middle of August. We will have one more dinner discussion section when we are ready to discuss the prophets at the end of July.
Samantha made some amazing chocolate cookies for us. I tried to discipline myself to not eat too many. It was funny when Samantha came out for breakfast the next morning and told Titus that he could not eat cookies for breakfast, I was standing there with a half-eaten cookie in my hand. But how often do we get homemade chocolate cookies?
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