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I’m …

• 2 days behind on my New Testament reading plan (through the NT in 15 days)
• 1 day behind on my Old Testament reading plan (through the OT in 45 days)
• 3 days behind on my regular reading plan

On that note, I made a mistake the other day when I was describing the plans… the OT is 45 days, not 30.. meaning in that one time through the OT, I’ll work my way through the NT 3 times. I know, typical North American Christian who doesn’t pay much attention to the OT. But! My Biblical Hebrew is much more advanced than my Greek, and so I’ll be translating the OT much sooner… so I figure that balances out for now.

The reasons why I am behind… and I know it’ll sound like excuses, but meh. First, I took out the wrong book from the Library. I forgot that the Prof of my Postmodernism & Theology class mis-listed the books so that the order on the sheet wasn’t the order we were going to read them. So the book I picked up, we weren’t supposed to read for another like 6 weeks. So that put me behind on the readings for that class, and I spent today making it up.

In addition to that, we just had a lot of stuff to do at work… my office (which I share with my boss) is going through a kind of renovation.. Then this morning, it was supposed to be a Pastors Team meeting only – but the new Senior Pastor decided at the last minute to include the Interns as well.. I appreciate it, and it was helpful for me to really grasp the vision of my church, but that was basically the time I was planning to spend catching up on my readings..

So anyway, hopefully I’ll be caught up by the weekend…

I know I mentioned before that in my next post, I would list out the various text books I’m using for Biblical Hebrew, but I was doing something last night and something kind of funny – it’s funny to a nerd like me – kinda happened.

I’m doing this really intense Bible reading plan… I realized that I really should know the Bible much better, well, how else but read? So I’ve decided to do a really crazy thing this year – read through the Bible multiple times… I know! We struggle even with just once a year. But I’m gonna try!

In addition to my regular plan (the once-a-year plan) I’m doing several different ones that I can customize using my Logos software. For the month of January – that is, for 30 days starting yesterday, since school is going to be slower,  I plan to go through the Old Testament once and the New Testament twice.  After that I’m going to slow down some, because I’m going to have 2 major papers to write. So I’m going to switch to a 90-day-plan in which I’ll read the Old Testament once, and the New Testament 3 times.

Anyway, since I just restarted my plan, and I started this other plan too, I came across an interesting story twice… The story of Lot and his daughters in Genesis 19. I’m not going to explain it here, but let anyone who doesn’t know the story look it up themselves. But it is quite interesting, I’m sure.. Anyway, I was really wondering about it, so I decided to look it up in my new set of Calvin’s Commentaries… Unfortunately, the translators apparently didn’t think the story itself was worthwhile – enough to translate Calvin’s comments  on it! Bah…

I’m expecting the Word Biblical Commentary (electronic) set that I ordered on Boxing Day to come soon.. so I guess I’ll have to wait until then to read up another person’s theological take on it… Ah well.