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		<title>Family is Key to the &#8220;Plot&#8221; of the Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does the epic history of Abraham’s descendants relate to the overall story of salvation? Ancient ideas about family are key to the logic of both the Old and New Testaments.]]></description>
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		<title>Introduce Yourself as a Biblical Person Would</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted the article &#8220;Where Family is Everything,&#8221; which describes a Somali person who defines his or her identity entirely in terms of the larger family. Biblical peoples thought much this way too. Here&#8217;s an interesting exercise for you &#8211; try giving your own biblical &#8220;self-introduction.&#8221; Nowadays you&#8217;d tell about yourself to someone new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Family is Everything&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our modern, Western culture revolves around the individual. In the biblical world, family was everything. What does that actually mean though, in terms of how they thought? I found a fascinating description of this worldview in The Shadow of the Sun, by Ryszard Kapuscinski, as he describes the peoples he encounters throughout his travels in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Life, According to Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a little experiment for you. Right now, make yourself smile. Look in the mirror. Are you really, genuinely smiling? Or is it a little forced? Okay, now make yourself laugh. Did you fill the room with hearty guffawing? Or did you find it quite difficult? Okay, now make yourself happy. Are you truly brimming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Leave Out the Leavening?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday night, Jews around the world sat down to celebrate the Passover Seder meal. At the same time, they also began the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which lasts seven days. Still today Jewish people make a great effort to observe the commandment to remove all leaven from their homes and eat only unleavened food for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Hebrew Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Hebrew words. I can&#8217;t count the number of times that learning a definition has deepened my understanding of not just one Bible passage, but many. Recently I&#8217;ve posted a couple examples to show you what I mean. In the article &#8220;Does God Forget Sins?&#8221; I explain how the words for &#8220;remember&#8221; and &#8220;forget&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shema: To Hear is to Obey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biblical Hebrew includes only about 8,000 words, far fewer than the 100,000 or more we have in English. Because Hebrew has so few words, each is like an over-stuffed suitcase, bulging with extra meanings that it must carry in order for the language to fully describe reality. Unpacking each word is a delightful exercise in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Soup for You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the classic Seinfeld episode where he and his friends discover a great soup restaurant that is owned by short-tempered man? People line up down the block to order take-out, but if they annoy the owner in any way, he barks, &#8220;No Soup for You!&#8221; and sends them away empty handed. So Seinfeld&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discipleship: What Sheep Can Teach Us</title>
		<link>http://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/discipleship-not-fences-but-following-shepherd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think that Jesus’ command to make disciples simply meant teaching people certain beliefs about God, helping them to accept Christ as Lord, and then educating them in doctrinal truth later on. Though all these are important, this way of defining discipleship showed that I, like many westerners, approached the gospel primarily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Use Jewish Sources to Study Jesus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois Tverberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much can we really learn about the Jewishness of Jesus from Jewish sources? That’s a pretty fundamental question, since the goal of this website is to understand the Jewish background of Christianity. I’ve found some pretty important news about it, and wanted to share it here. A common approach to studying Jesus is to [...]]]></description>
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