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I drove all day today, and I am now at Virginia Theological Seminary. I feel holier already! I am going to be here for about ten days doing research. I need to write about fifteen more entries for the New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, finish up a paper I am delivering in Budapest, and start some research on the dating of the Priestly source in the Pentateuch. I know — it sounds so exciting that you wish you could be me!
I am staying in the guest house for the first six days, and then will be staying with a friend who is a professor here. Next Sunday, I will drive up to Baltimore to stay with another friend so I can do some research at the Johns Hopkins library.
June 19th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Hey Kevin,
since you are doing OT research anyway, here is a pop question from my Sunday School class: are there any references in the OT to God as the Father? We are studying the Lord’s prayer and somebody asked me that, so I promised to tell them more about it next Sunday. Thought I would check with you about that one.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Hosea 1-3 seems to be such a passage, although it does not use the word ‘father’. Hosea is pleading with his unfaithful wife Gomer and her children. Since both Gomer and the children represent Israel, this would be a reference to God as husband and father.
This is just one off the top of my head. Sorry I don’t have time for more.