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INTERMISSION 🙞 Walk through of Isaiah

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Chapter 1 Exegesis of Isaiah So I will be going to a bible study with my mom this fall and it will be going through Isaiah. Though I have read though these books many times. I have stay away from deeper study with the prophetic books because they tend to be the most troublesome when deciphering whether we are talking about literal or figurative, past or present or future plus the historical.  One of the reasons I began project psalms was to develop the understanding of the ancient Hebrews semantics and ability of identifying figures of speech so that I could come back to the harder books like Isaiah. I'm not done going through the psalms but I need to start my initial run through of Isaiah in preparation. My plan is to do one chapter a day...but I'm not sure I will get through it all in time lol. I swear I am trying to do the bare minimum...but what the mind sees it must flush out... Check out the intro of my post  Break down of book of psalms  if you want to understand m...
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INTERMISSION 🙞 break down of the book of Psalms part 1

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 INTERMISSION Breakdown of the book of Psalms PART 1 As you may know, if you've been following my blog, I am in the process of exegeting the 'psalms of ascent', psalms 120-134. But I can't help myself and find myself needing a refresher from this arduous task. I had no idea where that study would lead me when I began. My intention had been to so very simply and quickly run through the psalms identifying the  figura  at play. But in doing so the study opened wide, which I am loving.  And I'm loving the repercussions it is having on all my bible study in general. And I'm loving how it is training me to really back up my findings and present my work clearly. But I need a type of break to clear stagnation. I have an old blog post that lays out  tips for biblical exegesis , that is not my intention here. But I will briefly layout basics of my process here. In these intermission posts, I will be moving through the psalms 5 at a time. In part this is due to my nee...
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