Bible

Memorizing the Bible is a key spiritual discipline. “Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee,” is a passage that I have memorized from childhood. Memorizing and meditating on the word of God is commended in the Bible and important for our well being. Tips: Set aside a fixed time and place to memorize. When reciting, your aim is to be able to say the verse as smoothly and as accurately as if you were reading it off of a page to a group of people. If you have to hem and haw or pause for a long time and think, then it’s not solid enough in your brain. Keep reciting and practicing. For reviewing, take 30-60 seconds here and there without diverting from regular life, and insert recitation into the short passive moments, like in the bathroom, driving, etc. Put a screenshot of the verse on your phone lock screen. Try the Bible Memory App Journal on the passage you are memorizing. My personal process: Initial memorization with verse memorizor tool I made. Add to anki Review in anki. Family process: When we memorize with kids, it is all oral since half our kids can’t read yet. ...

Apochrypha Chapter Notes 2 Maccabees 3 Resources Doran, Robert, and Harold W. Attridge. 2 Maccabees: A Critical Commentary. Hermeneia–a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012. An excellent commentary on 2 Macc, provides a solid general introduction and a terse but informative line-by-line commentary. Goldstein, Jonathan A. II Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Nachdr. The Anchor Bible 41A. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Another excellent commentary, more detailed in both the notes and the introduction than Doran’s.

Leviticus 27:14-21 See note on Temple Mortgages Philo treats 20% fee as punishment for foolish behavior 1 he shall pay its price and a fifth besides, punishing his own rashness and impetuous desire for his two faults, his rashness for making the vow, and his impetuous desire for wishing for things back again which he had before abandoned. Resources Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. 23 - 27, First Yale University Press impression, The Anchor Bible 3B (New Haven London: Yale University Press, 2010)o. Morales, L. Michael. Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus. New Studies in Biblical Theology 37. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Chapter 7 focuses on the earthly temple and its role in Israel’s history, including the exile and restoration. This resource is heavy on theology and lighter on history but provides some valuable thought on how Israel understood and approached the temple. Chapter 8 focuses on the transition to the eternal temple and the person of Jesus. Some valuable insight on Jesus’ and the NT approach to the temple here. Beale, G. K. The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God. New Studies in Biblical Theology 17. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos: Inter-Varsity Press, 2004. Chapter 3-4 contain some suprisingly relevant content on the temple’s use in the OT. Starting with symbolism in chapter 2 it moves on to the expanded ways that the temple was used (eg treasury) in chapter 3. Chapter 11 discusses the temple in Ezekiel with both a near term view on attitudes toward the temple as well as the wrapped up eschatological view. Philo, “The Special Laws, II, 37,” in The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, trans. Charles Duke Yonge (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995), 571–72. ↩︎ ...

General Morales, L. Michael. Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus. New Studies in Biblical Theology 37. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos: InterVarsity Press, 2015. A Biblical theology of Leviticus. Leviticus is the key book focused on the cultic ritual of Israel. This work deals with the sacrificial system and how Israel approached God throught His dwelling place (first tabernacle, later temple). Beale, G. K. The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God. New Studies in Biblical Theology 17. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos: Inter-Varsity Press, 2004. Focuses on the connection between the physical dwelling of place of God with man in the tabernacle and the temple and connects that idea to the incarnation and ultimately with the universal presence of God shared with man in Revelation. Chapters Leviticus 27 Leviticus 27:14-21 - consecrating houses to the temple