tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post112560419447098545..comments2024-03-06T09:59:45.522-06:00Comments on Happy Catholic*: Notes on Mark: Degrees of RelationshipJulie D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08384291674560438678noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-75527055061079268452013-04-27T09:23:03.168-05:002013-04-27T09:23:03.168-05:00It is rich to call everyone brothers and sisters i...It is rich to call everyone brothers and sisters in terms of our understanding of the family of God. However, I must agree with the author that it is linguistic poverty to have no other ways to delineate relationship. It is much like American English's poverty in having to explain whether bi-monthly means twice a month or every two months ... when one could simply use the word "fortnight" and know that means "two weeks." :-)Julie D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08384291674560438678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-54919923094417319352013-04-27T06:14:29.953-05:002013-04-27T06:14:29.953-05:00Poverty of Hebrew and Aramaic language? Seems like...Poverty of Hebrew and Aramaic language? Seems like a richness to me, intimately calling close relatives "brother."<br /><br />The sordid story in 2 Samuel 13 has long provided an understanding of the Mark 6:1-3 to me, but I've never encountered it in a commentary:<br /><br />"David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar, and David’s son Amnon loved her. He was in such anguish over his sister Tamar that he became sick; she was a virgin, and Amnon thought it impossible to do anything to her. [...] Amnon said to him, “'I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.'”<br /><br />The relationship is what we might call half-sister and half-brother. Due to David's many wives, Tamar and Absalom by Maacah and Anmon by Ahinoam. <br /><br />Similarly, we are all brothers and sisters, as the hymn goes, "with God as our Father ..."Moonshadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277057132720569896noreply@blogger.com