{"id":103,"date":"2009-06-01T21:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T02:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/2009\/06\/01\/june-4-kings-and-psalms\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T02:17:54","slug":"june-4-kings-and-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/2009\/06\/01\/june-4-kings-and-psalms\/","title":{"rendered":"June 4 &#8211; Kings and Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"solomon_temple.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/files\/2009\/06\/solomon_temple.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. What are some of the ways in which the narrative of Kings is a continuation of the story begun in 1 and 2 Samuel?  Conversely, what are some of the main differences between Samuel and Kings?  Feel free to refer both to specific narrative details, and to more abstract literary features like style and motivation.<\/p>\n<p>2. Identify a passage in the reading from Regina Schwartz&#8217;s book (assigned for today) that particularly resonates with you.  Quote the passage, then explain in a paragraph or two how it helps you to understand (either because you agree with it, or because you take issue with it) some of the reading we&#8217;ve done in this part of the course&#8211;and ideally some of the reading you are doing in Kings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/files\/2009\/05\/curseofcain.pdf\">Link to Schwartz reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Choose one of the Psalms on the list assigned in today&#8217;s reading.  Do a short interpretation of it, focussing in particular on themes you&#8217;ve encountered in this half of the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What are some of the ways in which the narrative of Kings is a continuation of the story begun in 1 and 2 Samuel? Conversely, what are some of the main differences between Samuel and Kings? Feel free to refer both to specific narrative details, and to more abstract literary features like style and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}