This is my exegetical paper for Gospels. I wrote it at the same time I wrote an exegetical paper for Old Testament History and Theology which I won’t be posting since I was very disappointed with it. I had great hopes for it and parts of it were really pretty good but I punted on the Biblical theology section, I really should have been bolder but I went in the obvious direction and my paper lacked coherence. (since it was going somewhere and I detoured it). So, it will never see the light of day unless I do some extensive editing (which apparently will never happen). It was the story of Hagar in the wilderness, a passage I think says a lot about God’s care for the Gentiles even though they weren’t his covenant people. I also thought the passage was interesting in light of the parallels in the story of Hagar and the story of Israel: oppression at the hand of their masters and God’s care in the wilderness are themes shared by both. And the interesting reversal of fortunes: the descendants of the oppressor are oppressed by the people (Egyptians) of the slave girl. Maybe I’ll look at it again during my break, if I edit it, I might post it when I return to blogging.<\/p>\n
This paper suffers from what all my exegetical papers suffer from, I wrote it the week it was due, I did not edit it enough and it lacks cohesion. I think that you can see some improvement in my introduction but I didn’t write the paper I intended to write. Oh well, at least I can learn from my mistakes and hopefully write a better paper for my next class. And I can console myself with the knowledge that I only have three more papers to write and then I’m done \ud83d\ude42