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Title: Preaching the Poetry of the Old Testament


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Preaching the Poetry of the Old Testament
  • by
  • Knut M. Heim

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Part 1 The Theological Power of Poetry
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The Old Testament
  • Old Testament - Hebrew Bible - First
    Testament...?
  • The Old Testament makes up two thirds of the
    Christian Bible
  • Between 30 and 50 per cent of the Old Testament
    are poetry

4
The Old Testament
  • The new New Testament
  • Where is the GOOD News in the Old Testament?
  • Where is Jesus in the Old Testament, and how
    important is he anyway?
  • How we talk about God

5
Poetry - the Language of God
  • How the Bibles poetry works
  • Parallelism
  • Imagery
  • Metaphors
  • Ambiguity
  • Everything just to slow you down...

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What has been written with imagination must be
read with imagination. (Luis Alonso Schökel)
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Part 2 Preaching Poetry
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Preaching fromthe Psalms
  • What are the poetic books and texts in the Bible?
  • Psalms
  • Proverbs
  • Job
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Song of Songs
  • Poems in narrative texts

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Preaching from Ecclesiastes
  • Ecclesiastes 31-15

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Preaching from Song of Songs
  • Allegory of divine love or
  • Love-song about human love or
  • both?

11
Preaching from the Psalms
  • Psalm 137

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Preaching from Proverbs
  • Proverbs 1122
  • Proverbs 8

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Preaching from Job
  • Structure
  • Preaching with the bigger picture in mind

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Preaching from Poetic Parts of Narrative Texts
  • Genesis 1, 2 and 3

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Bibliography
  • Alonso Schökel, Luis, A Manual of Hebrew Poetics.
    Vol. 11, Subsidia Biblica. Rome Editrice
    Pontifico Istituto Biblico, 1988.
  • Bos, Rein, We Have Heard That God Is with You
    Preaching the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich.
    William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.
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