So I got through Leviticus. All the while thinking “I want to be excited about this but I’m really not”… this wasn’t helped by the reading of Velvet Elvis (more on that soon) by Rob Bell where he says that when they started out Mars Hill church he spent a very long time preaching Leviticus.
This weeks thought, therefore, is slightly on the flippant side than the deep side… The beginning of Numbers 12 (did I mention I moved on to Numbers?) says :
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife (he had married a Cushite).
It’s almost like the writer realises he forgot to mention the whole marrying of a Cushite and that it was kind of key to the dispute between Miriam, Aaron and Moses.
Beyond that, I’ve got nothing.
How are you all?
Andy Hoyland
This is somewhat less daft in the original Hebrew.
Or not.
Okay, I haven’t got a clue.
Dad?
I can fully believe it was less daft in the original before the tutor got hold of it and pointed out there was a word limit of 100000 +/-10% and that some words had to be cut out while still saying it would be useful to include more detail in lots of places but ALSO saying everything you had said was worth saying…
Are you with me?
Also – Dad’s on Radio York on the iPlayer – he’s on just before 37 minutes.