There's a new house sign on North Elm Street that is hard to miss--a bright orange sign sporting a likeness of Food Network star Guy Fieri and the words "Flavor Town". Apparently some Fieri fans have moved in.
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I enjoy learning about the "reception history" of the Bible, the way that faithful readers through the centuries have interpreted various passages of Scripture.
Ancient readers of the Bible paid close attention to every word, and the questions they asked and answers they proposed can help us see the text in old/new ways.
That is true even when those readers were clearly wrong.
I was recently given much food for thought when I learned about questions raised by Gen 15:13, where God reveals to Abram,
“Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there."
Ancient Jewish readers were very interested in affirming the justice of God, and they were surprised to see God predicting trials and suffering for Abram's descendants right after Abram is praised for his faith (v. 6). They wondered what Abram had done wrong to bring suffering on his descendants, and they proposed a number of answers. I discuss them in a new post at the Grace & Knowledge website.
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