Tag: Jeremiah

  • God as Father in the Old Testament

    So, still no daily Old Testament lectionary reading (except for feast days) until around mid-November.  But, that’s okay for today because I remembered I was gone to a World Youth Day celebration this weekend.  So, I didn’t say anything about this past Sunday’s lectionary reading.  Lots of stuff going on here.  The reading was from…

  • A Feature I Like in English Textual Notes

    I was reading in Jeremiah 1 today, and I noticed a feature that I like in my Hebrew-English Tanakh. Word plays are often marked in notes.  For instance, there is a word play between shaqed “almond tree” and shoqed “watchful” (their translation) in Jeremiah 1.11 & 12 that is marked.  So, I looked ahead into…