The Blossoming of Aaron's Rod by Augustin Hirschvogel, circa 1550, currently at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Frankly, I'm getting tired of the Israelites and their whiny ways. I've said it before and I'm saying it again: you'd think that people who witnessed amazing natural and unnatural miracles nearly every week would be…
Israelites Carrying the Grapes of Canaan, Stained Glass Window, created @ 1480, installed in the Pfarrkirche St. Lorenz (St. Lawrence Parish Church), Nuremberg, Germany As Chapter 13 starts, the Israelites have FINALLY reached Canaan, the land that God has promised to be their new forever homeland. Hooray! God tells Moses to send an exploration team…
Means of Determining Leprosy, image from the Phillip Medhurst Picture Torah, published in 1970, currently in the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible Illustrations at St. George's Court, Kidderminster, England The three chapters to be covered in this blog post are a big example of why people stop reading the Bible if they start from the…
Stained Glass Windows Depicting the Law (Moses) and the Priesthood (Aaron), Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, England, erected 1865 Chapter 7 begins with instructions on how the early Jews were to make their guilt offerings. Like the other livestock sacrifices, the animal was to be slaughtered where the burnt offerings were performed and blood splashed on the…
Penny Reads the Bible 