04-03-2009, 04:53 AM
Shlama Akhi Jerzy,
You ask:
Question to Akhan Andrew: The Weekly Scripture Readings in AENT do not cover all of the Tanakh, correct? So Daniel and Christina would need to use some other checklist (or reading plan) to make sure they cover all text, if they want to. You guys have encouraged me to give the list from AENT a try. So, where is the question ... Oh, here we go - how have you devised the matching of NT readings for each week, what was the underlying idea? Any existing, historical weekly reading schemes you have used? I was always wondering how different historical churches (COE, RCC, etc) come up with such liturgical reading lists.
Peace and blessings,
Jerzy
The dividing up of the NT to fold into weekly Shabbat cycle reading is a relatively new phenomenon in the modern Netzari movement. I am not aware of any ancient designs either by the COE or early Western churches that specifically were tied to the 54 divisions of the Torah. The COE did however divide the Peshitta into weekly "lectionary" sections, but Paul Younan would be the true expert on that. I know the contours of those divisions, but am not privy to the deliberations that gave birth to them.
As more Nazarenes get into Peshitta study, or even just looking at the Hebraic Roots movement in general, different suggestions came from people like Trimm, Moshe K, and others. My approach was to look at those (and some others) and make also some changes that I felt more closely mirrored first century linkages. So to my mind Shavuot should be linked to the opening part of Acts, various NT celebrations of Passover to the original, and so on. It was actually almost the last thing I did on AENT, largely an afterthought as I looked through the Tanakh I got for my Bar Mitzvah and reviewed the way Tanakh was divided.
The Shabbat cycle readings, at least in the traditions of the last 2000 years that have come down to us, were never meant to incorporate the Writings sections. That doesn't mean the Ketuvim were never part of synagogue service, but rather that they were not officially part of the main reading. Esther, Job and some others are read during certain holidays. In actuality, not all of the Prophets are used weekly either, but only excerpts designed to go with the full Torah, or what we call haftarot. Tradition however does talk of a previous practice of incorporating all of Tanakh in sections over a 3 year period, but that precise division has been lost to history.
The majority view right now is to follow the one year reading cycle of Torah and Haftarot, augmented with NT in some fashion for Nazarene use. I think though that in coming years, once Peshitta is accepted by a majority as base text, that exploring this matter again with a full Beit Din will be inevitable.
You ask:
Question to Akhan Andrew: The Weekly Scripture Readings in AENT do not cover all of the Tanakh, correct? So Daniel and Christina would need to use some other checklist (or reading plan) to make sure they cover all text, if they want to. You guys have encouraged me to give the list from AENT a try. So, where is the question ... Oh, here we go - how have you devised the matching of NT readings for each week, what was the underlying idea? Any existing, historical weekly reading schemes you have used? I was always wondering how different historical churches (COE, RCC, etc) come up with such liturgical reading lists.
Peace and blessings,
Jerzy
The dividing up of the NT to fold into weekly Shabbat cycle reading is a relatively new phenomenon in the modern Netzari movement. I am not aware of any ancient designs either by the COE or early Western churches that specifically were tied to the 54 divisions of the Torah. The COE did however divide the Peshitta into weekly "lectionary" sections, but Paul Younan would be the true expert on that. I know the contours of those divisions, but am not privy to the deliberations that gave birth to them.
As more Nazarenes get into Peshitta study, or even just looking at the Hebraic Roots movement in general, different suggestions came from people like Trimm, Moshe K, and others. My approach was to look at those (and some others) and make also some changes that I felt more closely mirrored first century linkages. So to my mind Shavuot should be linked to the opening part of Acts, various NT celebrations of Passover to the original, and so on. It was actually almost the last thing I did on AENT, largely an afterthought as I looked through the Tanakh I got for my Bar Mitzvah and reviewed the way Tanakh was divided.
The Shabbat cycle readings, at least in the traditions of the last 2000 years that have come down to us, were never meant to incorporate the Writings sections. That doesn't mean the Ketuvim were never part of synagogue service, but rather that they were not officially part of the main reading. Esther, Job and some others are read during certain holidays. In actuality, not all of the Prophets are used weekly either, but only excerpts designed to go with the full Torah, or what we call haftarot. Tradition however does talk of a previous practice of incorporating all of Tanakh in sections over a 3 year period, but that precise division has been lost to history.
The majority view right now is to follow the one year reading cycle of Torah and Haftarot, augmented with NT in some fashion for Nazarene use. I think though that in coming years, once Peshitta is accepted by a majority as base text, that exploring this matter again with a full Beit Din will be inevitable.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
Andrew Gabriel Roth