Ep011 Psalm 30 Proper 5 YrC

This episode tackles Psalm 30, the psalm appointed for Option 2 for Proper 5 in Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary. We talk a little bit about lectionary mechanics to explain what all that means before we get to the psalm itself. The book referred to in the show is W. Kelly Simpson’s The Literature of Ancient Egypt, available at Amazon and other retailers. The image for today’s episode is from an Egyptian memorial stele in the Manchester Museum and is the public domain here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele#/media/File:Heiroglyphs.jpg The commotion & distraction around 18 minutes was my older cat deciding he needed to find a comfy spot in a box of crumpled paper...