I’m not doing as much with this blog as I have in the past, and I’m not sure what the next few (or many) months will look like. This research\/writing project is taking more time than I had hoped. I had planned fixed boundaries, both on each day and for each book (of the Bible). But even doing work I’m not proud of, I can’t maintain both boundaries. That is, I either work late (in the day\/night) or I miss my deadline. If I go over on one book, it’s very hard to catch up. By working late, I’m not working on my photos or reading, as I had planned (I am, however, still being a husband and a father). Nor I am doing much blogging. Besides that, I am writing a lot. I am probably writing 30-40 pages (double-spaced, most of it) each week. So when I finish writing, I’m not sure that I want to write more.<\/p>\n
I don’t have the problem that I’m not learning anything worth communicating. The problem is more that I’m learning too much<\/em> worth communicating. Of course, that’s part of the idea, as this program (and this year in particular) is the foundation for the rest of my life (as I envision it). The combination of I’m-tired-of-writing with I-can’t-pick-what-to-write results in less blogging than I anticipated.<\/p>\n Today I almost finished Hosea. If you ‘re wondering how I got here, think chronology. I worked my way through the Primary History (Genesis to 2 Kings), plus I did Ruth and Chronicles. A few of those books I had written the majority of before this year (Genesis, Samuel, Chronicles). Rather than continue with the post-exilic history (Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther), I’d rather stay in the same historical period. So I’ve jumped over to the prophets. I wrote on Amos a few days back. He’s the earliest writing prophet unless you date Obadiah or Joel to the 9th century (I don’t). When I was taking my entrance exam for the PhD program, I was asked who my favorite prophet was. I said Amos. That’s no longer true. But I still really like him for his wonderful use of language. And he’s much shorter and easier to understand than you-know-who<\/a>. Next week I’m going to work on the other two 8th-century prophets, Jonah and Micah (though there’s one potential snag<\/a>). Passion Week will be Obadiah and then I ‘ll spend the month of April in the Writings, namely Job, Psalms (2 weeks), and Proverbs. April may be my most difficult month, both because I am largely ignorant of these three books, and because they don’t lend themselves as well to “arguments.”<\/p>\n Well, I started this post thinking I’d tell you something about Hosea, but I got caught up instead with a progress report. As if you were my boss or something. Actually, you ‘re about the closest thing I have to one. One day I ‘ll show up at school with this big paper and they ‘ll say, what have you been doing this whole time?<\/p>\n Tomorrow I’m off with the boys and a couple of friends on a real Texas-style outing. Some of you will be able to figure out what that means. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not doing as much with this blog as I have in the past, and I’m not sure what the next few (or many) months will look like. This research\/writing project is taking more time than I had hoped. I had planned fixed boundaries, both on each day and for each book (of the Bible). \u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}