tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post6159753444322126460..comments2024-03-15T20:15:34.428+13:00Comments on ξενος: Christian Preaching of the OT #10Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-13320561982612212062010-11-03T13:23:34.326+13:002010-11-03T13:23:34.326+13:00thanks gents, it's been good to share, thanks ...thanks gents, it's been good to share, thanks for your interactions.Jonathan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295840754661890186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-72252353894307274732010-11-03T12:23:12.971+13:002010-11-03T12:23:12.971+13:00Yes - thanks for the series. In the Bible study I ...Yes - thanks for the series. In the Bible study I have attended over the past few years, I am the only person with experience in Hebrew and in close readings of the OT. There are other ordained people in it but none offer methods of reading the text. Last year all of them agreed they wanted to see Christ in the OT. So we began with selected psalms and did a full study of Job and I don't think they saw what they thought they might be looking for. I cannot tell you whether I use typology or a bridge paradigm, but what I do is to encourage actually seeing what is in the text. What seems to happen is that people are really surprised at how lovely the text is - how beautifully shaped, how carefully crafted, and in both Psalms and Job, how the prayer emerges with such confidence even in the midst of trouble. I don't preach, we just look together. I don't say I am translating accurately, we just observe some of the decisions of translation. They do see Christ in the OT. They see the Spirit of the Anointed - even if the anointing seems to be of the king, or the son, or the servant, or the people, or some individual like Cyrus, or the poet, or whatever comes out of the text. Then I think they see Jesus as one who has this Spirit without measure. But this wasn't quite what they expected. When they said 'Christ' they meant 'Jesus' and they saw more than they thought they might see, thus magnifying the Jesus who bore this anointing with such grace on our behalf. The feedback has been generally good, sometimes excellent, and sometimes critical. I am too intellectual, some say, or I ask questions that don't need raising. Or there are new concepts like the arbiter/referee in Job that they don't understand since the word is not used in the NT, or I shouldn't criticise the KJV or the NLT etc. Well, it's hard not to be critical sometimes when structure is obscured and interpretations are imposed. But there's my note and my questions again in a nutshell. Thanks for pointing out what others have done. I really appreciate that you have shared it.Bob MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-34707976284372697212010-11-03T10:54:29.161+13:002010-11-03T10:54:29.161+13:00Thanks for this series, Jonathan. I'd like to ...Thanks for this series, Jonathan. I'd like to point you to Tim Keller's teaching, where he gives example sermons too.<br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewiTunesUCollection?id=378879885" rel="nofollow">Keller on itunes</a>Ryan Bondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958921048644608275noreply@blogger.com