Comments on: What is the Old Testament? http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/ A blog focused on LDS scriptures and teaching Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:55:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: KirkC http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29476 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:46:23 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29476 2 Cor. 3 is certainly one of the most captivating and intriguing chapters from the epistles.

]]> By: What is the Old Testament? | Times & Seasons http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29423 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:12:19 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29423 [...] on this post should be made at Feast Upon the Word 0 people like this post. [...]

]]> By: Jim F. http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29396 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:45:43 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29396 Excellent idea, Joe! Who should organize it?

]]> By: joespencer http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29383 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:57:49 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29383 I’d love to get some discussion of 2 Cor. 3 going. (That chapter might make a good text for a Mormon Theology Seminar project, no?)

]]> By: Jim F. http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29374 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:21:20 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29374 I haven’t thought much about the end of Corinthians 3 lately, though I should have. I’m in the middle of reviewing a book and have to finish this week or early next. (That’s why I put so many things up at once, to get them done and get one to this other project.) But I am interested in your question. Let me see what I can do–perhaps on Sunday.

]]> By: Robert C. http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29363 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:07:09 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29363 A bit off topic, and there are suddenly lots of new comments and posts here at the blog, but you mentioned 2 Cor 3:6 in your post, and I’ve been wondering recently about the end of chapter 3 where Paul gives a kind of midrash on Moses’s veil. This seems to be an important idea regarding Paul’s understanding of the new covenant in comparison and distinction with the old covenant. But this is a difficult (but fascinating!) passage for me to make sense of. Since you’ve studied Paul quite a bit (and since Jean-Luc Marion discusses the end of this chapter quite a bit), I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind sketching your understanding or sharing your thoughts on those verses.

]]> By: Jim F. http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29358 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:53:08 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29358 Ricke, I think that Mike Parker’s schedule for reading the OT is as good a recommendation as any. There are a dozen ways to read it, each of them with its advantages and disadvantages, but before beginning to do a lot of comparison to latter-da revelation or introducing the deutero-canonical books, I would recommend getting through the entire canonical Old Testament, probably in the order the books are now in.

With that familiarity as background, other programs of study are possible. I would probably next read the deutero-canonical books. Then I would choose a book or set of books (based on my own interests and spiritual questions) and begin a more in-depth study. That study would include comparison to other LDS scripture as well as research in good commentaries.

]]> By: ricke http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/20/what-is-the-old-testament/#comment-29357 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:08:52 +0000 http://feastuponthewordblog.org/?p=1125#comment-29357 How would you recommend someone read the OT? Is there a chronological order that would make sense? Do you recommend interspersing LDS scriptures such as parts of the Book of Mormon, in addition to the Books of Moses and Abraham? What about the Deuterocanonical books? Would you include them in your reading, and if so, where in the list?

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