2022

Rev. Dr. Kristine Ruffatto

Retired Professor of Old Testament Studies at LTS

September 9–11, 2022

Kuriakos, Sylvan Lake, AB

Kristine & Scot in Africa

An Adult Look at Sunday School Stories

Sessions:

  1. Noah’s Ark
  2. Moses & the Exodus
  3. David: The Shepherd Boy Who Became King
  4. Joshua, the Battle of Jericho, and the Conquest of Canaan

Summary:

When we are children, we learn the stories of the Bible and get out of them what we can. But the biblical narratives are highly literary, theological works — they are sophisticated and complex!

The biblical writers used stories to teach, to edify, and to make a theological point. The deeper we dig, the more richness we discover.

St. Augustine wrote that the Bible is “shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim.”

An in-depth look at well-known Old Testament stories enhances our understanding of their meaning and message, for ancient Israel and for us today.