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Nancy deClaissé-Walford is professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia.  She is the author of four books:  Reading from the Beginning:  The Shaping (...)

An overview of the Narrative Lectionary Year 3, fall. Promises, promises Some preachers and worship leaders who follow the Narrative Lectionary (NL) have found it useful to divide the year into smaller units. The following (...)

The passage seems to contain multiple voices: a preacher and healer, an administrator, and YHWH.1 These three speakers play a major role in the Jerusalem renaissance. General Mission 61:1-3b The literary motifs of Isaiah 40-55 (...)

There are two patches in Joel’s prophetic quilt.1 Scholars do not agree on the editorial history of the book of Joel. Some argue for a ninth century date, while others suggest a Persian period (500-350 (...)

After a first, poetic account in Genesis 1, Genesis 2-3 offers a complementary narrative account of the beginnings of creation. Together these three chapters present creation through a bifocal lens that affirms both the profound, (...)

“They said nothing to nobody — they were afraid, you see.” That’s a fairly literal, inelegant English rendering of Mark 16:8. Could the evangelist have ended his Gospel like this? What kind of victor is (...)

Unvarnished and raw: that’s how Mark recounts Jesus’ death. More than any other evangelist, Mark drives the church into the heart of its gospel in all its horror and wonder. Every temptation to prettify it (...)

One of the striking things about Mark’s Gospel is that it is not the disciples, first and foremost, who serve to proclaim the Good News; in fact, the disciples are in many ways last to (...)

“Sorrow and love flow mingled down” from the lines of this poem.1 The poet draws on imagery from across the spectrum, as if grasping desperately for a metaphor, however inadequate, to capture the turmoil brewing (...)

Wisdom has built her house… Proverbs 9 continues what might be called the “Acts of Wisdom” begun in Proverbs chapter 8. Wisdom is presented as an independent and autonomous female entity, introduced in chapter 1. (...)