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Redline of KJV --> JS Matthew 1

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Wars and rumors of war.

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Lesson 34: Hosea

Next week in Sunday School, we’re going to talk about the book of Hosea. Hosea is, in a lot of ways, almost a polar opposite of what we discussed in Job: it’s expressly covenantal, and it attributes punishment to bad behavior.

Hosea is the first of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Note that “minor prophet” doesn’t mean less important--it just means that they’re short books, especially in comparison with the three major prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah.

The book of Hosea is tough, though. Like really tough. Partly, that’s because of familiarity issues--if you’re anything like I was a week ago, you’ve never read Hosea. But it’s also because of genre and style (a prophetic book, with a mix of prose and poetry), context (probably the decades following the Assyrian conquest of the Northern Kingdom), and weirdly literalized metaphor. Moreover, we have legal language here, and some relatively misogynistic language and images.

With all that, though, Hosea is fascinating, interesting, and valuable. And next Sunday, I’d love for us to dig Hosea and see what value we can pull out of it. To do that, it would be great if you could read for it. The whole book is only 14 chapters long, but those chapters are fierce and bear extended concentration and rereading. If you’re not up for reading all 14, it would be great if you could read at least chapters 1-3 and 4:1-3. Again, I recommend a good study Bible, but if you don’t have half a dozen of those hanging around, the NET Bible is also a great place to have at it.

Again, Sunday, feel free to ask any questions you have about Hosea, but also don’t hesitate to ask them in advance here.

I’m looking forward to talking about Hosea on Sunday!

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I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes well out of it.

Virginia Woolf (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/woolf-letters2.html)

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Preparation for Sunday School Lesson 32: Job

The book of Job is structured as a series of poetic dialogues, mostly between Job and his friends. While the whole book is wonderful, unless you’ve already been reading, I suspect none of us will have time to read the whole thing. If you could read one dialogue, though, that would be great. (Most dialogues are about 3 chapters long.)

If you finish that and want to read more, Job ends with two interviews (or dialogues) between Yahweh and Job that take up about five chapters. 

You can find an outline of the chapters here. And seriously, while reading all of the dialogues would rock, choosing any one of them will provide a great foundation for our discussion.

When you do your reading, I strongly recommend that you use a modern translation of the Bible; the KJV doesn’t differentiate between poetry and prose, while modern Bibles do. Feel free to use your preferred translation. If you don’t have half a dozen translations sitting on your shelf, though, the NET Bible is a good (if a little more conservative than I prefer) study Bible available for free online here. Like most modern translations, it uses its typesetting to differentiate poetry from prose.

If you want a quick primer on how to read Hebrew poetry, you can read this Ensign article.

Finally, I’ll have a lesson ready, but I’d also love to go over anything that you find interesting, intriguing, or difficult in your reading. Feel free to just bring things up in class, but you’re welcome to ask question in advance here.

I’m looking forward to our class next week!

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Book of Job Outline

Frame Story: Job 1:1-3:1; 42:7-17

Job’s Opening Lamentation: Job 3:2-26

Dialogues Cycle 1

Eliphaz & Job: 4:1-7:21

Bildad & Job: 8:1-10:22

Zophar & Job--Principle Applied to Job: 11:1-14:22

Dialogues Cycle 2

Eliphaz & Job II: 15:1-17:16

Bildad & Job II: 18:1-19:29

Zophar & Job II: 20:1-21:34

Dialogues Cycle 3

Eliphaz & Job III: 22:1-24:25

Bildad and Job III: 25:1-27:23

Job’s Closing Affirmations: 28:1-31:40

Four Speeches by Elihu: 32:1-37:24

Two Interviews of Yahweh with Job: 38:1-42:6

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2018 J. Reuben Clark Law Society Faculty Conference Schedule

January 3, 2018

Thomas Jefferson School of Law 1155 Island Ave. San Diego, CA 92101

6:00-7:00 pm: Dinner

7:15-8:45 pm: Papers

Session 1:

Gladriel Shobe - "Private Benefits in Public Offerings: Tax Receivable Agreements in IPOs"

Jake Linford "Placebo Marks"

Michaelyn Steele "Sovereign Resilience: Building Enduring Tribal Institutions and Communities"

 Session 2:

Andrea Boyack "Too Poor for Bankruptcy"

Maybell Romero "Low-Bid Criminal Justice Systems and Spatial Inequities"

Chris Walker "The Lost World of Agency Adjudication"

 Session 3:

Jarrod Shobe "Enacted Legislative History"

Dan McConkie "Civilizing Criminal Discovery"

Elysa Dishman “The State Attorney General of the Resistance.”