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No Cross of Gold What is Bryan suggesting about bimetalism? What connection is he trying to make in the
allusions? The Latest Decalogue
OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES
Exodus 34:29-35 – Moses coming down from mtn.
Numbers 9:15-23 – cloud and tabernacle Numbers 24:17 – prefigurement of Christ Numbers 27:12-23 – Joshua Deuteronomy 15:1 – Jubilee year Leviticus 25:10 – 7th Jubilee year Joshua 5:13 – 6:21 Jericho
SCAPEGOAT
Leviticus 16 At this time, in order to make amends and
right all the wrongs, an offering was made to the Lord
A goat was to be sent out with the physical manifestations of all the sins – literally a wandering goat. William Tyndale unknowingly translated it incorrectly as scapegoat instead of an escaped goat. This is how the word entered into the modern language.
SAMSON
In groups, review the story of Sampson (It is found in Judges 14 – 16).
Consider the following: Sampson is often regarded as a hero. Is this a fitting description of him? Why is Samson regarded as a hero? What is Delilah’s role in the story?
Discussion
• Why is Samson regarded as a hero? According to your group’s theory, how does he fit in?
SAMSON
Out of the eater came something to eat, Out of the strong came something sweet.
Judges 14:14
SAMSON
Samson is given power by God (Judges 14:14)
He solves a riddle relating to a honeycomb he found in the skull of a lion he had killed the year before.
Transformed by God’s purposes, Samson’s all consuming self-indulgence is turned to moral nourishment, and the sweetness of deliverance comes from his strenght.
SAMSON
Samson often bears a resemblance to classical Greek heroes, especially when considering that hubris leads to his downfall.
Delilah is often seen as a temptress who lures Samson to relinquish his secret.
SAMSON AGONISTES – JOHN MILTON
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!Blind among enemies, O worse than
chains,Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!In power of others, never in my own;Scarce half I seem to live, dead more
than half.O dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, amid the
blaze of noon,Without all hope of day!
READING FOR ALLUSIONS – THESE WILL HELP!
1 Kings 1 to 4 Jonah 1 to 4 Amos 5 Samuel 18 and 19
ABSOLOM
David’s oldest son and heir, Amnon, raped and traumatized Tamar, Absolom’s half-sister. Absalom, David’s second son, saw that David indulged Amnon, and would not punish him, so Absalom had Amnon killed to avenge Tamar’s honor.
ABSALOM David blindly mourned Amnon and
condemned Absalom, who had no choice but to go into exile. Father and son were temporarily reconciled, and for a time maintained polite appearances.
Absalom, however, was vain and ambitious, and it wasn’t long before he let himself be persuaded to rebel against his father.
ABSALOM
Vanity ultimately leads to Absalom’s downfall. His hair gets caught in a tree and he is stabbed by one of King David’s soldiers while entangled.
ABSALOM
Only in hindsight, after Absalom’s death in battle, did David mourn the son he had turned into an enemy:
The king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son! - 2 Samuel 18:33
ALLUSIONS TO ABSALOM
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner discusses the return of the main character’s son.
Absalom was also the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the Alan Patan novel Cry the Beloved Country. Like the Absalom of yore, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.
Jonah
Jonah is written as a third-person narrative Jonah’s audience is Nineveh, the capital city
of wickedness, and the heart of the Assyrians (Israel’s oppressors)
Jonah was reluctant to follow the will of God; he was not interested in saving Nineveh, wich was a brutally militaristic nation, much like Hitler’s Germany
Jonah
Rather than carry out God’s command, Jonah took matters into his own hands and jumped aboard a ship heading in the opposite direction (from Nienveh to Tarshish).
Jonah
This action alone should indicate how unhappy Jonah was about his mission – the desert-dwelling Israelites feared the powerful ocean more than anything else in the natural world.
An intense storm struck, and the ship Jonah was on began to sink. The captain called Jonah on deck, and the sailors cast lots to determine who was responsible for the problem.
Jonah
This action alone should indicate how unhappy Jonah was about his mission – the desert-dwelling Israelites feared the powerful ocean more than anything else in the natural world.
An intense storm struck, and the ship Jonah was on began to sink. The captain called Jonah on deck, and the sailors cast lots to determine who was responsible for the problem.
Jonah Just when Jonah was on the point of
drowning, a big fish scooped him up. There is no mention of a whale in the book of Jonah, the image developed after repeated telling of the story.
Jonah offered up a prayer of thanksgiving to God for saving him from death. His gratitude was increased by the fact that he deserved to die, but God showed him mercy.
WHICH PICTURE APPEARS TO DEPICT JONAH MORE APPROPRIATELY?
Jonah
Jonah was then purged on to dry land by the big fish at the command of God. Now Jonah had to honor a second command from God, so he went to Nineveh to proclaim the message God had given him.
Ironically, after the Ninevites repent, Jonah is concerned with the fact that the Israelites are God’s chosen people and yet, God wants to reform all. The hypocritical attitude is rare in the Old Testament.
Jonah and Literature
Herman Melville’s story of the captain of a New England whaling ship, Ahab, is the most obvious allusion of Jonah’s tale in western literature.
“Call me Ishmael.”
The Hymn – as seen in Moby DickThe ribs and terrors in the whale,Arched over me a dismal gloom,While all God’s sun-lit waves
rolled by,And lift me deepening down to
doom,I saw the opening maw of hell,With endless pains and sorrows
there; Oh, I was plunging to despair. In black distress, I called my
God,
When I could scarce believe him mine,
He bowed his ear to my complaints –
No more the whale did me confine,
With speed flew to my relief,As on a radiant dolphin borne;Awful, yet bright, as lightning
shoneThe face of my Deliverer
God.
Social Justice in the Bible
The book of Amos and Micah announced that because of the Israelite’s social injustice and religious arrogance, God would punish them
But let justice roll down like waters; and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. - Amos 5:24
These words were adopted by many contemporary political activists, and are featured on the wall of The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.
CONNECTION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1L8y-MX3pg Two connections – one to Moses, one to the gospel
of Matthew