After the ferocity of Judges, it's lovely to have something so special to read. Why is Ruth special to me? For many reasons! It echoes the Woman of Nobel Chapacter in Proverbs (watch this space!), it is the text in the Bible most likely to have been written by a woman and it's the passage [...]
Watching the Bible Project video, it was clear that I was in for a rough ride with this one! I was grateful for the warning because a lot of the book of Judges is grim. It poses far more questions than it answers, and parts of it are deeply disturbing. One notable character is Jael [...]
I'm starting February strong with another Bible blog. Here we are with Deuteronomy, the last book of the Penteteuch (meaning '5') and Torah (meaning 'law'). Again, I found that The Bible Project video gives a great overview of the book, explaining that Deuteronomy is essentially Moses' last speech to the Israelite people as they were [...]
The last time I read the Bible in full, Numbers was my least favourite book. With apprehension, I started off, but having recently finished, my main thought is that it wasn't as bad as last time! I think I found it difficult because of the lists of names in the (not one but two) censuses [...]
Rev Poppy 