4 Maccabees, Hebrews 11, Acts 22, Revelation 12. “But why the Maccabees?” asked St. Gregory Nazianzen in an Oration given during a celebration of the martyrs (Oration 15). He went on to answer an assumption in his own day that martyrs can only be called such if they die for Christ, and so the MaccabeesContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 28: 4 Maccabees, God’s Reason, and the Passions"| Edith M. Humphrey
3 Maccabees, Exodus 15, Daniel 3, Daniel 6, Jonah 2 3 Maccabees is a book included in Orthodox Bibles because of its presence in the Septuagint, and its acceptance in various authoritative document…| Edith M. Humphrey
1 Maccabees 9:24-16:24; 2 Maccabees 7; 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms) 5:4; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 8:4; Ezekiel 34:27; Hebrews 12; Romans 4:17 We have already devoted two episodes to the first nine chapters of …| Edith M. Humphrey
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1 Macc 3:1-9:22, 1 Samuel/2 Kingdoms 17, Psalm 100 (MT 101) Who is the happy Warrior? Who is heThat every man in arms should wish to be?…[It is that one] Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!Turns his necessity to glorious gain. The term “Happy Warrior,” used by FranklinContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 25: Judas Maccabeus, the Happy Warrior"| Edith M. Humphrey
1 Maccabees 2, Numbers 25:7-9, Psalm 106: 26-28. The first chapter of 1 Maccabees, which we considered in last episode, set the scene for us, and gave an overall picture of the atrocities suffered by the Jewish people under the oppression of the Seleucid king, Antiochus Epiphanes IV. Chapter two, which we will read inContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 24: Maccabean Resistance and Remembrance"| Edith M. Humphrey
1 Maccabees 1, Hebrews 11:34-35, 1 Cor 10:11, Daniel 9:27 and 11:31. In our survey of the Readable Books, we have considered stories such as Susanna and Judith, poetry such as the Song of the Three, visions such as Mordecai’s dream of the dragons, sayings of wisdom such as those found in Wisdom of SolomonContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 23: God’s “Timefulness” and 1 Maccabees"| Edith M. Humphrey
The Epistle of Jeremiah (found sometimes as Baruch 6), Mat 6:21; Numbers 21:4-9, 4 Kingdoms/2 Kings 18:4, Jer 2:13, 1 Cor 8 and 10, Philippians 3:18-19, Col 3:5 The Epistle of Jeremiah is an ancient work, written to encourage God’s people in the Dispersion in Babylon (and elsewhere) to remain true to the only realContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 21: The Epistle of Jeremiah and False Gods"| Edith M. Humphrey
Most of the Readable Books that we have been studying are found in our section of the Old Testament where other “wisdom” books are found—Psalms, Proverbs, Solomon, and so on. Like the tales of Dan…| Edith M. Humphrey
These diverse ancient works expand upon the four canonical Gospels in creative and sometimes subversive ways.| Text & Canon Institute
Previously, I have reflected on why the New Testament appears in the order that is does and how considering different orders can better inform our engagement with Scripture. Of course, talking about the New Testament in this way raises the obvious question, “what about the Old Testament?” This article is an attempt to answer that question by looking at the major orders in which the Old Testament can appear. First, we will consider canonical order: The post The Old Testament in Order appea...| Conciliar Post
The apostle Paul quoted Scripture more than a hundred times in his thirteen canonical letters, but he never identified the version of Scripture that he used. Why bother?—you may think—everyone knows he used the Septuagint (LXX). He was obviously not quoting Scripture in the original language, because he was writing in Greek, not Hebrew, so […]| Text & Canon Institute
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