Advent Reboot: 2 Samuel 7, with Jacob Wright

Who Makes a Name for Whom? Lectionary Date: December 20, 2020 [4th Sunday of Advent, Year B] What does a proposed temple-building project 3,000 years ago have to do with Advent this year? Rachel and Tim consider 2 Samuel 7 in an Advent context, and play an "encore" of their very first First Reading episode, with guest Dr. Jacob Wright, professor of Hebrew Bible at Emory University and Candler School of Theology. Jacob's latest book, War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible, is hot off the press (July 2020) and very relevant to the issues we discussed when we recorded our pilot episode of First Reading! Learn more about Jacob Wright, and check out his other books: David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory and Rebuilding Identity: the Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers.