My Bible Study Notebook

This blog will be my Bible study notebook.

In it I will create essays and record random bits of information that I find helpful in
understanding the Bible.  Feel free to add materials, and add anything
which you feel will help me understand the Bible better.  Feel also
free to ignore the person the poetry that I may record here.  Some
things cross my mind that cannot be put into prose where paragraphs
and instead will find themselves recorded is some rather
incomprehensible poetry.

I am interested in exploring the Bible itself.  I will use Jewish sources that shaped the world that Jesus lived in to find the meaning behind what he was teaching.  I don’t believe in secret doctrines and other such foolishness, but I also think that we misinterpret or are bewildered by things which were comprehensible to the people he was talking to.

I want to be challenged.  I want folks to disagree or expand the subjects that I am dealing with.  I enjoy the dialog that clarifies and produces insight.

I also have a desire to make the Bible even more meaningful than it is presently.  Sometimes we protect ourselves by isolating ourselves from some of the events of the Bible.  Please feel free to go back to older posts and respond to what they cover.

I have lived a great deal of my life teaching.  I am in my 47th year of teaching.  I have learned more from my students than they have ever learned from me.  I am hoping that
anyone who reads this blog should feel again free to expand or question or refute anything written here.  I would sooner be corrected than continue in error.

Ted