For you Lausten I took the time to read through that. Interesting, if I were more interested I'd say fascinating.
But then I'm always a little amazed that people see so much in the Bible. Every time (in my adult life) I've given it a change and open it to read some,
I get so turned off by the stories and messaging, sometimes disgusted even, that it's become totally irrelevant to me, though I know most people seems to think it's some master piece - so it'll never be totally irrelevant, not even for me. I'm stuck with the world I was born into.
Thanks CC. When I get done with comments on the entire Lectionary I plan to write up a more critical analysis. On Milepost 100, I'm trying to stay neutral. I have a coding system for each entry, and after 80 weeks of readings, I've found 3 inspirational passages. There are quite a few more that I call "universal", but that only means they express a universal value, i.e. something you could find in most civilized cultures. Every religion has that, and they all borrow from each other. Most of the stories I label "theology", which to me means stories that refer to other symbols and stories within the same culture. I think what most people call inspirational is something like God sending his only son down for sacrifice, what a great guy. But that requires so many assumptions and accepting so many myths, without which, it's not inspirational at all.
Those theologies are my driest entries. They just report the facts of what the names mean or what passages are being referenced. The interesting ones are when you can forget the theology, forget how it fits some canon that was invented later anyway, and find a warrior's tale, or a slaves rebellion, or a man's struggle against his own ego.
As for where it came from, I rarely bother mentioning that. That's interesting to me, but it's not what I'm doing with this website.