Study with Penina 1 Samuel 7-8, November 2, 7:30pm RSVP

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1 Samuel Chapters 7-8
Wednesday, November 2, 7:30pm to 9pm.  Eitz Chayim library. 
Bring your Tanakh, snacks, wine.
RSVPs appreciated
 
No prior study or knowledge of text study or Hebrew is required! 
Books provided if you don't have your own.

Review and study material can be found on Penina's blog
See New York Times article in links:  "The Scrolls as a Start, Not an End"

We meet each 1st and 3rd Wednesday evening to study the book of Samuel.

Study with Penina 1 Samuel 5-7 October 19, 7:30pm

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1 Samuel Chapters 5-7
Wednesday, October 19, 7:30pm to 9pm.  Eitz Chayim library. 
Bring your tanach, snacks, wine.
RSVPs appreciated
 
No prior study or knowledge of text study or Hebrew is required! 
Books provided if you don't have your own.
Review and study material can be found on Penina's blog

Throughout the year we will meet each 1st and 3rd Wednesday evening to study the book of Samuel.

And they placed the Coffer of YHWH on the wagon,
along with the chest and the gold mice and the images of their tumors.
And the cows went-straight on the road, on the road to Bet Shemesh:
on one path they went, going-along (and) lowing,
but they did not turn right or left.
---1 Sam 6:11-12 (Fox translation)

"Against the spareness and swift efficiency of normal Hebrew narrative style, the writer here lavishes synonyms and repetitions in order to highlight the perfect geometry of the miracle: against all conceivable distractions of biology or sheer animal unknowingness, the cows pursue an arrow-straight...trajectory... [T]he milch cows...are going strenuously against nature: their udders full of milk for the calves they have been forced to leave behind."
---Robert Alter, The David Story

October 5, 2011 Study Session

Study with Penina Announcement

                                

1 Samuel Chapters 3-5
                                 
Wednesday, October 5, 7:30pm to 9pm.  Eitz Chayim library. 
Bring your tanach, snacks, wine.
 
No prior study or knowledge of text study or Hebrew is required! 
Books provided if you don't have your own.

Throughout the year we will meet each 1st and 3rd Wednesday evening to study the book of Samuel.

YHWH said to Shemu'el:
Here, I am about to do a thing in Israel
such that all who hear of it - their two ears will ring!
---1 Sam 3:11 (Fox translation)

I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.
---King Lear

Leaders fail in Samuel, "and it is in confronting their failures that the reader is empowered to ponder the meaning of responsibility and leadership for our own time.  The narratives...unfold in a way that cautions human beings about the exercise of power and takes offenders to task."
---Everett Fox

"Women play a larger role in the books of Samuel than in most of the rest of the Bible... It has, in fact, been suggested that one of the major themes of the stories of David and his family is precisely the unavoidable link between public and private life within a ruling family."
---Jo Ann Hacket