Hallelujah Author Carol Bechtel shares with us how she is never tired of teaching

the Bible and Handel's Messiah and her experience in writing the Biblical texts of Handel’s Messiah

Experiences in Writing and Teaching Hallelujah: The Bible and Handel's Messiah Kerygma Hallelujah Author Dr. Carol Bechtel, shares with us how she is never tired of teaching the Bible and Handel's Messiah and her experience in writing the Biblical texts of Handel’s Messiah   Dr. Bechtel first encountered Handel’s Messiah as a member of her high school choir. In rehearsals, she admits that she would sometimes stare off into space thinking about the words when she was supposed to be singing.    “I first started teaching a class on the Bible and Handel’s Messiah for an adult Sunday school class at First Presbyterian Church in New Haven when I was a graduate student at Yale. I worked especially hard on it because you never knew who would show up in the adult Sunday school class in that place! Richard Hays, then teaching at Yale and now a New Testament professor at Duke, would often be there.”   “I realized then that I needed to find ways to talk about how the Old Testament texts in Messiah were about the Messiah. As an Old Testament student, I had been taught the importance of exploring the original context of the texts. I was—and still am—committed to that. But it was also clear to me that the Church hears these passages as being somehow ‘about’ Jesus Christ. Since I was working with Old Testament scholar Brevard Childs at the time, I began to listen for what he liked to call, ‘canonical echoes’ between the testaments.” She would get the chance to wrestle with these issues when she was invited by Kerygma to write a study of the Biblical texts in Handel’s work.  “As I wrote the study, I came to realize that the question was not whether passages like Isaiah 7, 9, and 53 were about Jesus, but how are they about Jesus. While the original context was crucial, there was also a sense in which these passages had been ‘recontextualized’ as the early church attempted to understand their experience of Jesus Christ. So, in terms of context, I believe it’s not so much a question of either/or, but both/and.”   “I’m still not tired of teaching The Bible and Handel’s Messiah. That may have more to do with the quality of the music and the scripture passages than with anything else.”   About the author Kerygma Studies by Carol Bechtel  HALLELUJAH: THE BIBLE AND HANDEL'S MESSIAH 10 Sessions, or 4 Advent & 6 Lent   A study for both the music lover and the biblical seeker, it explores the scriptural texts of Handel's Messiah. This study offers careful examination of the texts and opens doors to your community in a new way.   With four sessions on the Advent texts and six sessions on the Lenten texts, it may be offered as two seasonal courses or as one ten-week course.  A recording of Messiah is recommended for class use: We offer the 2-CD Chicago Symphony version.   Advent Comfort, Comfort My People Who Shall Abide the Day of His Coming? For Unto Us a Child is Born Glory to God in the Highest Lent Behold the Lamb of God He Trusted in God Who is the King of Glory? I Know That My Redeemer Liveth Why Do the Nations Rage? Hallelujah, Worthy Is the Lamb, Amen View a Session of Hallelujah Resource Book       View a Session of Hallelujah Leader's Guide Order online Sowing Tears, Reaping Joy: the Bible & Brahms' Requiem  7 Sessions   Follow this famous requiem on a tour of Biblical prompts about death, grief, the brevity of life, and faith for here and hereafter. Through music and Scripture, we move from graveside to grieving, from the challenges of self-reflection to new perspectives and hope beyond.   Contents: Blessed Mourners Fading Flowers We Have to Be Carefully Taught A Glimpse of Glory A Mother's Comfort Our Heart's True Home The Last Word   View a Session of Sowing Tears  Resource Book       View a Session of Sowing Tears  Leader's Guide Order online Job and the Life of Faith: Wisdom for Today's World 7 Sessions   There was never a time when the book of Job was not relevant, but it is especially so today.  This is not because the book of Job has changed, but because we have.  We may be more ready to listen now ... less certain of our own answers. So, when Job asks "why," we, too, strain to hear the answers.  And if answers are not forthcoming, then we, like Job, will need to learn how to live without them. The book of Job cuts straight to the heart of what it means to be human.  It is the most profound exploration of the life of faith ever written, and wrestles with some of life's most perplexing questions. Why do bad things happen to good people?  Is there a correspondence between sin and suffering, obedience and blessing?  Why should we serve God if there are no guarantees of blessings and freedom from loss and harm?   Carol M. Bechtel contends that the real theme of Job is defining the limits of human wisdom.  God does not answer Job's questions about suffering, but reminds Job that he's out of his league.  We do not have all of the answers; God does.  Faith, as Job comes to understand it, is an exercise in radical trust.   Contents: Introducing Job: the Book and the Man An Ancient Story The Impatience of Job When Familiar Answers Fail Closing Arguments Life Within Limits View a Session of JOB  Resource Book       View a Session of JOB  Leader's Guide Order online View our 2023 Catalog of Resources Visit  our Website View Archives  Forward to a Friend  Unsubscribe  The Bible—THE book of the community, by the community, and for the community!

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