Episode #45
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young girl was laid to rest in a tomb on Jerusalem’s Mt. Scopus. She was buried inside a lead coffin with a trove of gold jewelry, which archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) are just beginning to investigate.
Among the items found within the girl’s coffin were golden earrings, a hairpin, gold, carnelian, and glass beads, and a gold chain bearing a lunula pendant named after the Roman moon goddess Luna.
From Biblical Archeological Review
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
…
The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
TS Eliot “East Coker”
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It’s indicated here at the beginning where it says, “The LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone.’ ” Most commentators will tell you that is a very surprising statement...What’s really surprising about it is it’s inexplicable. How could you be unhappy in paradise? Why would Adam be lonely? Why would he be unhappy in paradise? There’s only one possible answer, really. God deliberately made him to need someone besides God. Oh, don’t get me wrong. We all need God. He made us to need him, and that’s the foundation of a relationship, but think about this. Several theologians have put it like this.
This is the most humble act you could imagine. This is the most un-self-centered act you could imagine. God made human beings to need not just him, but other human beings, other relationships, other selves, other hearts. How humble of God, how un-self-centered of God, how other-oriented of God, how sacrificial, in a way, of God.
Tim Keller “The First Wedding Day”
I was just wrestling with my brother
And got caught by my mother
Just when I was about to get slaughtered
She sent me to my room, I thought it was my doom.
Bad Day Busters “Caught by My Mother”
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