Michael Reads the Bible
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Sunday, December 10, 2023
The Book of Habakkuk
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Italian, Late 17th-Early 18th Century. Daniel in the Lion's Den with an angel bearing the prophet Habakkuk. I remember that, when I be...
Thursday, October 28, 2021
The Book of Nahum: "An attacker advances against you, Nineveh."
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The Book of Nahum is a short one – three straightforward chapters in two pages – so I think we can sort it out pretty quickly. Keep in mind...
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Wrapping up Micah
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In the course of my obviously inadequate religious education, I’d occasionally ask why the Old Testament was still kept in the Christian Bib...
Monday, July 05, 2021
Michael Reads Micah
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Jan van Eyck, Micah, from the Ghent altarpiece, 1432. It has been not quite two years since the last entry in this enterprise, which was...
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Monday, August 19, 2019
The Book of Jonah: And how he never got to Tarshish
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Tucked incongruously among the angry denunciations of the other prophets, the Book of Jonah is a charming, upbeat tale of divine compassio...
Sunday, June 16, 2019
The Book of Obadiah
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Melozzo da Forlì,“Obadiah” in the Sacristy of St. Mark, ca. 1477 , as snaffled without so much as a how-do-you-do from another guy's B...
Sunday, June 02, 2019
The Book of Amos: “What do you see, Amos?”
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Amos (on left), with Nahum, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Detail of mural by John Singer Sargent, Boston Public Library. Amos is another book of...
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