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With Joy You will Draw Water from the Wells of Salvation

Lois Tverberg — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:54:50 +0000

Right now is the Feast of Sukkot, (Tabernacles), when Jews build small booths in their yards to live in (or at least eat their meals in), to celebrate the harvest and to commemorate their desert wandering. Each year the celebration takes place during September or October, after Israel has experienced at least six months without […]

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Two Talks on the Bible from an Insider’s Perspective

Lois Tverberg — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:11:49 +0000

Remember in Genesis 15 when Abraham sacrificed animals to make a blood path to cut a covenant with God? You might think that you’d need to go back three thousand years to see this scene, but Rev. Dr. Milly Erema Maturu saw her family make covenants this way when she was a kid. Her traditional […]

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Amazing news about Rev. Dr. Milly Erema Maturu

Lois Tverberg — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:23:12 +0000

Those of you who have been following my blog have read that in the past few years I’ve been working with a brilliant Old Testament scholar, Rev. Dr. Milly Erema Maturu, a Ugandan professor with fascinating cultural insights on the biblical world that come from her East African background that resembles the Ancient Near East […]

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Free Books on Greek & Hebraic Thought

Lois Tverberg — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:32:51 +0000

As I research my next book, I’ve been reading up on Jesus’ Hebraic, Jewish culture and how it contrasts with the Western culture in which we live. I keep bumping into great books I haven’t seen before. I thought I’d share a couple that are free to read or download because they are out of […]

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Jesus, the Metaphorical Theologian – Ken Bailey

Lois Tverberg — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:34:34 +0000

Ken Bailey has written a number of fascinating books on Jesus in his Middle Eastern context. In his introduction to Finding the Lost Cultural Keys to Luke 15 (Concordia, 1992), he explains a key difference between how Westerners think and communicate and how Jesus did. Westerners primarily communicate in concepts, but Middle Easterners communicate in […]

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Learning to Think in Hebrew

Lois Tverberg — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:41:49 +0000

I recently told you about some of the interesting Norwegian words I grew up saying, like “uff-da” and “vasakope.” As my immigrant ancestors were learning English, they hung on to words in their mother tongue that did a better job of expressing what they meant to say. My relatives weren’t the only ones doing this. […]

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Hesed: Enduring, Eternal, Undeserved Love

Lois Tverberg — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:13:03 +0000

Hebrew has a word for life-long love that is richer and deeper than English has ever conceived of—hesed (HEH-sed). Based in a covenantal relationship, hesed is a steadfast, rock-solid faithfulness that endures to eternity: “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love (hesed) for you will not be shaken” […]

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