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1. Share any insights on Isaiah 53 ‘homework’2. Cut up blocks of text of the Decalogue (the Ten Words)

CICC Cafe: Biblefresh InsightsThe Aims

1. To discover the way God writes – the biblical (Hebrew) worldview, culture, literature

2. To develop skills in enjoying and meditating on the inspired text of scripture

3. To appreciate the benefits that come from studying Torah in fellowship with others

CICC Cafe: Biblefresh InsightsThe Sessions

1. Glory to God – Speaking with tongues of angels! (Luke 2.14)2. The Lord is my Shepherd – Poetic analysis of Psalm 233. Behold my Servant – Poetic analysis of Isaiah 53

4. How does God write? – The Concept of Woven Text5. In the Beginning – An example of woven text6. Our Father in heaven – Woven text in the New Testament

CICC Cafe: Biblefresh InsightsFocusing

How does God write?1. Lots of ways to study the Bible2. This series is about Biblefresh Insights3. The usual way we see the text – as prose (Item 2)4. Need to study the text as given5. Translations versus the literal translation6. Need to study the text in Parallel

Glory in the highest to God,

&

Peace on earth among people

of favour

One Verse!

1a Yahweh (is) my shepherd1b I will not be in need (or ‘be missing’ ie. from the flock)

2a In pastures of fresh grass he causes me to lie down2b Beside waters of rest / tranquil waters He leads me3a My soul he restores3b He leads me in paths of righteousness3c (All) for the sake of his name

4a Even though I may walk through death-shadow ravine4b I will not fear evil

5a Because you are with me5b Your rod and staff they comfort me / give me reassurance6a You set in order in front of me a table as my enemies look on6b You anoint with oil my head6c My cup is saturated / well-filled (with blessings) 7a Surely, goodness and love shall pursue me all the days of my life7b And I will dwell in the house of Yahweh, for length of days

Psalm 23A. Proclaiming

Trust

A. Proclaiming Trust

A. Proclaiming Trust

B. ProofHorizontal – ‘He’

B. ProofVertical – ‘You’

C. Final Result

C. Primary Reason

The Servant Song

A The Enigma (52.13-15)

B The Revelation – Early Life (1-3)

C The Substitution (4-6)

B’ The Revelation – Later Life(7-9)

A’ The Solution (53.10-12)

How does God write?

• On Tables!– Put the 10 Words in order– How would they be laid out on the

two tables?

The Ten Words (Decalogue)On one Tablet, then the Other

Moses turned and went down the mountain,

with the two tablets in his handtablets of testimony

written across on both surfaces

across on this & across on this they written

&the tablets work of God they &the writing writing of God it

engraved on the tablets.

Exodus 32.15-16

“(the writing was) written across both sides; (alternately), on one and (then) the other, were they written.”

Over on one and then the other

ים לה+ ך א. ה־ל1 י4 לא יה1י6 נ7 ל־פ7 ים ע6 ר+ ח> א<

ה הו7 ם־י1 ת־ש> א א4 ש7 לא ת+י לא א כ+ ו1 ש7 יך ל6 לה4 א.

ת ה א> הו7 ה י1 ק4 נ6 י1מו ת־ש1 א א4 ר־יש7 ש4 א< ת ב7 ש6 ת־יום ה6 כור א4 ז7

שו ד1 ק6 ך ל1 מ4 ת־א+ א4 יך ו1 ת־אב+ ד א4 ב> כ6ל יך ע6 מ4 כון י7 ר+ א< ן י6 ע6 מ6 ל1

יך לה4 ה א. הו7 ר־י1 ש4 ה א< מ7 ד7 א< ה7ך ן ל7 נTת>

On one Tablet, then the Other

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear

(Deu 27:8 NET)

1.Put the Ten Words into 5 pairs2.Meditate on them and highlight connections

1AI the Lord am your God who brought you out of the , the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods beside Me. You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness, of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the Lord your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generations of those who reject Me, but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

1BYou shall not swear falsely by the

name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears

falsely by His name.

2ARemember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall not do any work-you, your son, or daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who is within your settlements. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

2BHonour your father and thy mother,

that you may long endure on the land which the Lord your God is

giving you.

3AYou shall not murder.

3BYou shall not commit adultery.

4AYou shall not steal.

4BYou shall not bear false witness

against your neighbour5A

You shall not covet your neighbour's house; 5B

You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or his male or female slave, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is

your neighbour's

The Five Pairs

How does God write?

• On Tables!• In Parallel (5 pairs)

• In Stereo!

Two Speakings

The LORD said to Moses, say to the sons of Israel...

• Moses the Prophet (esoteric)• Moses the Teacher (exoteric)

Ancient Writing

Much of it is in ‘Mirror Images’

or in Tables

The Merneptah Stele c.1200BCE

Stone at Migdal

50-100CE

Assyrian Bank of Tigris3000 yrs old144 womenAgricultural workers

Code of Hammurabi

Babylonian

c.1700 BCEAkkadian Cuneiform script

282 laws sandwiched between two poems

Papyrus of Ani1250BCE

Weaving

Ancient Technology

Belshazzar – Writing on the Wall

Rembrandt's depiction of the biblical account of Belshazzar seeing "the writing on the wall". Note the text is vertical rather than horizontal

God writing with the finger

bא נ> א מ1 b נ> מ1MENE MENE

b ק> לת1 ין e ס+ ר1 ופ6TEKEL UPHARSIN

י e ס+ ר1 bל ופ6 ק> א ת1 m נ> א מ1 b נ> מ1

Numbered NumberedWeighed Divided

And the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,

that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(Isaiah 28:13 ESV)

Jesus & the Woman caught in Adultery

1AI the Lord am your God who brought you out of the , the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods beside Me. You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness, of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the Lord your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generations of those who reject Me, but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

1BYou shall not swear falsely by the

name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears

falsely by His name.

2ARemember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall not do any work-you, your son, or daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who is within your settlements. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

2BHonour your father and thy mother,

that you may long endure on the land which the Lord your God is

giving you.

3AYou shall not murder.

3BYou shall not commit adultery.

4AYou shall not steal.

4BYou shall not bear false witness

against your neighbour5A

You shall not covet your neighbour's house; 5B

You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or his male or female slave, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is

your neighbour's

The Five Pairs

The Law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ became. John 1.17

(The) Law through Moses was given,

(the) grace & (the) truth through Jesus Christ became

You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.

3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh – hearts.

(2 Corinthians 3:2-3)

Tablets of Flesh – Hearts!

The Heart – a 2 x 2 Table!

A

VV

A

Human Beings – in Image of God!

Woven together

in my mother’s

womb!

Ps 139. 15

Left Hemisphere Right Hemisphere•Maths: Exact calculation

•Direct fact retrieval

•Maths: Approx. calculation

•Language: grammar/vocabulary, literal

•Language: intonation/accentuation, patterns, poetry, pragmatic, contextual

•Routine, well-rehearsed processing

•Processing of visual and sound stimuli, spatial manipulation, facial perception, and artistic ability

•Processing novel situations

The DNA Double Helix

Read Psalm 19

Also:

Rom 1.19-20 – God visible in CreationRom 2.13-15 – Law written on our hearts

Two Revelations, Two BooksCreation and God’s Word

CICC Coming Up• Homework!

– Meditate some more on the Decalogue!– Moshe Kline – Decalogue www.chaver.com – Explore: http://interlinearbible.org/

• Resources– The Five Books of

Moses (Fox, Alter)– Jewish Study Bible– Bibleworks

CICC Coming Up• Events such as this, around Wales

– Story Wars with Gerard Kelly, 24th March, Glenwood; 25th Breakfast– Can I believe the Bible? Tyndale House, 6/7 May, Highfields

• CICC Cafes– Biblefresh Insights– Relating Faith– Culture – do your own!

• Website• Courses

– Leadership Academy