Thinking and Expressing – Haiku

Byhenry October 26, 2007

OK, no, I’m not writing a Haiku myself, though perhaps it would be nice if I could master the form, but thus far, no, not so good . . . But I’m always looking for new ways of thinking about and re-expressing Biblical thoughts.

Through a comment on my Threads blog I found the Among the Hills blog, and an extremely interesting idea–lectionary Haikus.

Go check out Lectionary Haikus: The Persistent Widow and Lectionary Haikus: Ten. They should stimulate your imagination at a minimum.

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Asking Questions of a Biblical Text

Byhenry September 22, 2006

An excellent technique for digging deeper into a Bible text is to formulate questions about the text, and then look for answers to those questions. I discuss this briefly in my essay Reading the Text Precisely. A starting point for this is simply to ask basic fact questions about the text. Many difficult and angry…

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My Continuing War on Study Bibles

Byhenry September 21, 2012

Well, maybe not a war. I don’t really hate Bibles with study notes, and even recommend their use for appropriate purposes. They’re great for giving you background information, pointing out connections, and so forth. When they tell you what the text says, they are not so great. At a minimum, use more than one, and…

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Goals in Bible Study

Byhenry August 30, 2006

Very frequently in life, once you find out the right question to ask, the answer becomes obvious. You can waste a great deal of your time trying to find the answer to the wrong question. In Bible study, this is even more true. The question(s) you take into your study will frequently determine the answers…

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Principles of Interpretation or Conclusions?

Byhenry January 3, 2007

I’m always happy to see discussion about principles of interpretation of scripture, because in general when we have large differences of opinion between Christians they can be traced back to our approach to interpreting scripture and more broadly to our understanding of how doctrine is formed. Thus I was delighted to see General Principles for…

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Reconciling the Gospel Genealogies

Byhenry December 21, 2009

There are generally two reactions I hear to this in Sunday School classes and church pews–it’s either fascination, as if the genealogies make or break the Bible or complete indifference, as in “who cares?” Both reactions miss the point. Matthew and Luke are each making a point, and they are making it in a way…

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Revising my Hebrews Study Guide

Byhenry June 1, 2013

I keep thinking I’ll get more regular about updating this blog (or my other two), but things remain hectic around here. If you’ve been watching the announcements from my company, Energion Publications, you have seen some of what my wife and I, along with our team of authors and contractors are working on at the…

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~c. says:

October 28, 2007 at 10:21 am

Hey, thanks for the plug. I am glad that you have enjoyed the Haikus. I find it a good discipline: to try to explain the text in 17 syllables.

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