Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Reading the Bible in the small hours this morning, part of a churchathon.
It was the latter bit of 2Kings and the first of 1Chronicles.
2Kings is confusing if you read it just like that, switching between the northern and southern kingdoms.
1Chronicles is has complicated nested genealogies. And some names reappear - is it a different person, or the same person in a different context? A diagram would have been useful.
Anyway, it's the story of a people rooted in time and place.
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4 comments:

  1. janetlees5 March 2009 at 04:28

    I was doing the marathon bible reading with Bob. I liked the funny bits - someone who lived in Dodo and someone who had a poltice of figs for his boils. Sometimes I just couldn't get the names right I was so tired. But Bob is right. Hannah said something about veracity - the need to emphasise that these were real people. Thankfully not too many of my friends are choosing these names for their children so I don't have to remember them often. There were some interesting recurring refrains: both the bits about what a disobedient, and some disgusting, lot they were and the bit about 'The History of the Kings of Judah'. Different versions cope with the 'son of' in different ways. Bob's tended to keep in 'son of': mine just listed them as descendents. And of course there were ocassionally women.

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  2. Question of Identity8 March 2009 at 15:01

    churchathon - brilliant idea - how does it work? Is it just about reading the Bible? Over what period of time?

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  3. therevbob11 March 2009 at 00:58

    On this occasion it was reading the Bible, because the United Reformed Church is in its year of the Bible. I guess it can be whatever you feel led to make it.

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  4. therevbob11 March 2009 at 01:00

    PS - this one was organised by the Yorkshire Synod (http://www.urcyorkshire.org.uk/)

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