THE JOY OF BEING A CHRISTIAN - LOVE, TRUST AND BANQUETS
 27 NOVEMBER 2009
(St Stephen’s Church Hall, Inverness)

REFERENCES

References to bibles used in the lecture are usually to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), The New Jerusalem BIble (NJB), the Revised English Bible (REB), the New International Version (NIV), the English Standard Version (ESV) or the King James Version (KJV).

There are frequent references in this lecture to Jewish practices and thought.

Simple books which can be used as sources are:

Abraham Cohen, Everyman’s Talmud (2008)
Barney Kasdan, God’s Appointed Customs (1996)
Brad H Young, Jesus: The Jewish Theologian (1995, reprinted 2008)

Sumerian culture, including music, is discussed on many internet sites.

The practice of “run line” is discussed in Henry Grey Graham, The Social Life of Scotland in the 18th Century (1st pub 1899, but various eds and printings since)

Other books referred to include:

Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness (1999)
Viktor E Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning (1st pub in German in 1946, various eds. and trans. since)
Basil Hume, Mystery of Love (1996 and subsequent eds.) 

Biblical references include:

The first commandment to eat freely: Gen 2:16-7 (Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible with the Damned (2005))

Moses’ Song - Exodus 15

Singing, music and noise- see Psalm 98

Joy - see Psalm 65

David’s lyre 1 Sam 23

Smiling Job 29:24, Psalm 39:13

Laughing - Gen 17 and 18, Luke 6:21

Paul’s joy - 1 Thes 5:16, 2 Tim 1:4, Col 4:6

Jesus’ joy - John 15:11-2

Loving - 1 Thes 3:12, Luke 6:27-35, Math 5:43-8, Prov 24:17

Suffering - Heb 12:3-11, 1 Peter 5:10, Psalm 22:2

Food and wine - Deut 8:10, Luke 9:16, Mark 6:41, Luke 22:17-9, Mark 14:22, Gen 9:20, Deut 8:8, Micah 4:3-4, 1 Kings 4:25, Isaiah 5, Psalm 80, John 15:1, Math 11:19, Luke 7:34, 4 Macabees 1:21 and 2:7, Deut 21:20, Prov 23:20-1, Prov 28:7, Exodus 20:12,

Matt 9:10, Luke 15:23-32, 1 Tim 5:23

Gen 9:18-27, 30-8
2 Sam 13:28-9, Math 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9

1 Esdras 3:19, Sirach 31:25-31, 1 Tim 4:4-5

Death - 1 Phil 19-26

27 November 2009