Next Class:
February 16th
Teresa Vincent's House
4392 Osprey Drive
7-8:30pm
Melissa Smith, a former member of our ward, is
coming down from Fort Wayne Indiana to teach us a 5 lesson seminar on learning
to understand Isaiah. She will teach
every 3rd Tuesday, from January through May.
Our first lesson covered the questions of why
we should study Isaiah, the history and geography of the Middle East during the
time of Isaiah, (the Assyrians were really bad- think Isis- only more of them)
and the way of the Jews.
At the end of verse 5 in 2 Nephi chapter 25 it says “…and I know
that the Jews do understand the things of the prophets, and there is none other
people that understand the things which were spoken unto the Jews like unto
them, save it be that they are
taught after the manner of the things of the Jews.” Melissa discovered that the Jews study by using
commentaries, prayer, and studying and discussing with others. This is the way she gained her understanding
of Isaiah. (Which she pointed out is a real work in progress) So Yes, Isaiah is hard, but with some work we
can comprehend it.
Join us next time where she is going to discuss the literary
structures that will help us understand Isaiah better. Isaiah was a poet and she will teach us some
of the symbols he uses and what they refer to.
She will explain chiasmus and parallelisms and Isaiah’s use of these.
She has made a Facebook
page for this class called Understanding
Isaiah.
Let Teresa
Vincent (812-343-4936) know if you’d like to be added. She has posted her power
point from the first class as well as other interesting topics related to our
discussions so far. Everyone is welcome. We’d be happy to have more people. The spirit was there and Melissa has a way of
gathering lots of information and explaining it in a way that’s easy to
understand.
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