8/2/2023 0 Comments Deuteronomic redactor![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you for all who’ve served here, learned here, daydreamed here, and wondered about You here. Today we acknowledge the passing of a season at Western, here in this place where so many have come to observe the passing of the seasons. Today we give thanks to God for this space which has held a mind-boggling amount of saintly sinners talk about God. In the beginning, You blessed and said “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and steward it and have care for the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”įrom the beginning culture flourished, languages took on nuance, history was told and retold, and communication expanded to the point where words written thousands of miles away can flash on screens. ![]() Thank you that so many found welcome and wisdom here, the intentional researchers and the casual browsers, the crunch time writers Thank you that we aren’t adrift in words and bindings John Barton, 'Redaction Criticism (OT),' in Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. Redaction criti cism remains interested in discerning evidence that the text transmitted is a revision of an earlier document. Thank you for organization, that puts all the commentaries on Jonah in a logical place, redactional activity is the production of a particular text. Thank you for the librarians who led us on that humbling journey Only to realize that You are Greater than all imaginings So many came here thinking they knew all the answers The sermons written here, papers edited, hymns inscribed here,įor the teachers, preachers and scholars formed in the recessed carrels We give you thanks the Beardslee Library. God of the Cosmos, God of Us, Word made flesh, God of the Holy Scripture, God of the psalmists, God of Solomon, God of the Deuteronomic redactor, God of Mary and Luke, God of 1st Century Letter senders, God of Basil and Macrina, God of Latin theologians, God of Greek Bishops, God of fervent reformers, God of monks and mystics, God of dutch thinkers, God of Spanish speaking Preachers, God of Us, God of the Cosmos ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |