Week 4

Remember this sign that I had you research in class to discover what it was?
It's the soreq that was posted outside the Jewish temple.
Read the two links below to learn what it was and to learn what it says. This will help you in your Moodle assignment on the Temple Tantrum.

http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.html https://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/soreq-temple-courts

Agenda:

• Song as Text
• Moodle results: TV post/Peter Popoff
• Timelines and Testations
• Temple Tantrum
• Review, View, Preview
• Philemon
• Song as Text: "Sleep Like a Baby"

Note: if videos don't play on this page, click the very left-hand side of the video title'

Peter Popoff. Great discussion on this, as followup to your TV assignment:

    

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What an inspirational time it was as we all put our life timelines on the board. Here they are:
Timelines 

timelines from other classes

(found this online)

It has been hugely productive, revelational and (even) fun to, as part of a class that several others and I teach, have students plot out (on the whiteboard) their timeline.

As Pastor/Trucker Franks suggests below, sometimes it's "more about the journey than the destination."  See also  "What if Torah/ מלכות השמים, is more 'journey  than 'doctrine'?"

We then take time to interweave/intertext our personal timelines with the timeline/trajectory of Jesus' life in Matthew's gospel (the thrust of the class).

Especially helpful is the suggestion by Donald Kraybill ("The Upside Down Kingdom") and Ray Van Der Laan (  video)  that throughout  his earthly life, Jesus was revisited by remixes of the original three temptations ("testations" ) of the devil"in chapter 4.

Kraybill provocatively proffers the following taxonomy of the temptations; suggesting that any later temptation Jesus faced (or we face) is at heart in one of these three spheres:

1=  Bread into stones: Economic 

2=Jump from temple and test God:Religious 

 3=Own all kingdoms: Political; 

So, it may be useful to plot out various temptations along your life timeline, and ask which of Jesus' temptation are each is  tied to.

SO..if every temptation can be filed under one of the three categories:

Economic    Religious   Political..

Hmm..

How might virtually all temptations (the three Jesus faced, or others you could name) be fundamentally economic?  Kraybill, you'll remember, calls the bread temptation "economic," but how might any/all others temptations trace to this root/'garbage"?
HINT: We noted that he term economics comes from the Ancient Greekοἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, "house") + νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house(hold)".^[1]   

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We only had time for the first version of this U2 song.

We will do the second version nect week (Alternative Version).  Fantastic job trying to interpret what it was about.  If you missed class, try it. Read the lyrics, and play the music, to the first version (not the alternative one which we'll do next time. Use some Three Worlds skills to interpret it. Here are some of your thoughts during class:

  

"Sleep Like A Baby Tonight" 
Morning, your toast, your tea and sugar
Read about the politician’s lover
Go through the day like knife through butter
Why don’t you
You dress in the colors of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair 
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight 
Dreams
It’s a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there’s no daylight, there’s no healing 
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight 
Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else’s pain 
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams, everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take a flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight

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Song 2

Sleep Like A Baby Tonight" version 2 (Alternate Perspective Mix) 
Wake
In the morning when you wake up
You won’t have much
But you’ll have enough
When you are weakest
I’ll be strong enough for you

Dreams
Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
Can’t break what’s broken
You are tearless
Steal back your innocence
That’s what they stole from you

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Stop
Where you stand right now
Just stop
Don’t think or look down at the drop
The people staring from the street
Don’t know what you’ve got

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
No, not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight

Hope is where the door is
When home is where the war is
Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain

You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and so white
There are demons in the broad daylight
You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Where you stand
Where you fall is where I kneel
To take your heart back to where you can feel
Like a child, a child

 

Temple tantrum

In Matthew 21, Jesus angrily came into the temple and overturned the tables of the moneychangers.  Most people assume he was angry at their overcharging, but your moodle forum this week will make the case that reading this text in context as an apple, and through the Three Worlds, will suggest his anger was for a different reason.  Usually I have another class interrupt class unannounced, yell angrily and overturn a table to illustrate how surprising and subversive this act was.  Here is a video we watched in class of one of these events that you may not be able to rewatch on facebook due to privacy serttings: https://www.facebook.com/juan.rivera.39794/videos/3324559124320/#

It would as surprising as going to the drive-thru and finding David Letterman working there.  We watched the Taco Bell video in class, but not the McDonald's one, which is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tEfMxj4syw

 

NT Wright on the temple:

Jesus as New Temple:

Three thought experiments.

• -Think if I offered you a drivers license, claiming  i had authority to issue it
• -Think if someone destroyed all bank records and evidence of any debt you have owe
• -Think  what would happen if you pointed at something, hoping your dog would look at it.

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If I talk to your name sign, it's not really you.
What do you remember about signs and signposts?

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Remember, part of your prep reading for next week is Psalm 22.

 We will talk about  PSALM 22 in class next week..AND you may choose it as an alternate text for your signature.. you may do it instead of Philemon!