The Haiku NT Introduction is coming along nicely - still some opportunities for others to share their amusing musings.
Most NT introductions are 486 pages - if you use the 5x7x5 model for Haiku we will have a NT Introduction of 486 syllables! (28x17)
I think I have all the correct names beneath the compositions so far, but let me know if I have wrongly attributed a work of genius to the wrong person. By the way, not allowed to do the Pastorals or the Johannines or the Thessalonians as composite correspondence - must do each book - all 28 of them. Happy haiku!
Gospel of Matthew
Son of Abraham
Brings fulfilment of Torah
Global CommissionCatriona
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Gospel of Mark
Good news! Here's a tale -
starts with mid-life crisis, then
stops before life starts.Andy Jones
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Gospel of Luke
Good News! For the poor,
'Sinners' and tax-collectors:
Healing salvation.Catriona
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Gospel of John
The Word became flesh.
Uncomprehending darkness
eclipsed by the light.Jim Gordon
.
Acts
In Jerusalem
The Word in gracious power
To all the world's end.
Jason Goroncy
.
Romans
Saving God seeks... you:
sin-spoiled, grace-gained, destined. Die
to self, live to love.Andy Jones
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Galatians
In Christ free at last
They try to re-enslave me
Glory in God's CrossJason Goroncy
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Ephesians
God (who called you to
the skies) fill, gift and grow you;
live in light as one!Andy Jones
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Philemon
Neither slave nor free!
Since bound together in Christ,
Free Onessimus.Jim Gordon
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Hebrews
Spoken by the Son
Lo, our great high priest has come
Grace be with you allJason Goroncy
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James
Oft misunderstood
Harmony of faith and deeds
Practical wisdomCatriona
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Revelation
Valour in suff'ring
The Lamb who opens the scroll
Making all things newJason Goroncy
Jim,
can I have a copy of this Scottish NT please, it has one more book than the English one! (I just checked, my Bibles only have 27 NT books) Maybe this would explain my heresies?
(Either that or you're checking to see who is sad enough to comment on this)
Posted by: Catriona | November 26, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Oh Jings! Whit a numpty! Juist coonted them up ma'sel and whit a scunner, richt enough, 27. So then 27x17 = 469. Don't tell Sean ah cannae even add up hoo many books are in the NT. Ah'm humble enough as it is!
Thanks Catriona, just for that why don't you do the one on the fourth epistle of John?
Posted by: Jim Gordon | November 26, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Can't find 4 John, but here's its predecessor.
3 John
The elder commends
kind hospitality (wish
others followed suit!)
Posted by: andy jones | November 27, 2007 at 12:03 AM
The standard keeps rising. By my count we've reached 13 Catriona confirm please, I've lost confidence in my arithmeticality. Today's blog post gives the opinion of one ancient Church Father who dismissed arithmetical virtuosity as unnecessary for a good theologian!
Posted by: Jim Gordon | November 27, 2007 at 05:49 AM
4 John...
This one was missed out
God not reduced to numbers...
Bean counters beware!
1 Corinthians
Life in the body -
A guide for a healthy church
Three cores: faith, hope, love.
PS I did wonder if maybe the 28th book was that big fat prequel...
Posted by: Catriona | November 27, 2007 at 07:45 AM
2 Corinthians
(a grumpy haiku - there may be other things to say about this letter, perhaps some of this is the 28th book?)
Don't do what I said;
do what I meant - and don't give
me all this hassle!
Posted by: andy jones | November 27, 2007 at 01:55 PM
This is addictive, Jim. I'm submitting this and then going into rehab! Thanks for the fun and mental stimulus. I look forward to the complete canon. Other hands will now have to contribute, moved of course by the same Spirit.
Perhaps the mysterious 28th book is this extra-canonical reading of John's gospel - the same text just read through a different set of lenses.
Light comes down here. Calls
his own, breathes his Spirit, leaves.
Follow, love, believe.
P.S. and absolutely finally... a debate between the Council of Carthage and HMRC over the missing fourth Johannine epistle
"God didn't inspire
the fourth letter!" "It's lost - that
postman's apostate"!
I predict a new Dan Brown thriller within the year.
Posted by: andy jones | November 27, 2007 at 04:07 PM
Just couldn't keep away. Delirium tremens took over.
Here's a Colossian offering
False philosophies
hinder. Live holy lives, be good
to one another.
Posted by: andy jones | November 30, 2007 at 12:42 PM
And here's 1 Timothy. Lunch time over!
Teach what you were taught,
my son. Practice your gifts, and
keep the flock faithful.
Posted by: andy jones | November 30, 2007 at 01:05 PM
Another for 1 Corinthians;
Children, why divide?
Spiritual? You are not!
Breathe in Christ. And Love.
Posted by: Erik Pattison | November 30, 2007 at 05:17 PM
And for Revelation -
Clothed in Nike's robes
We defeat abyssal beasts.
Christ's city comes down.
Posted by: Erik Pattison | November 30, 2007 at 05:26 PM
Philippians
A prisoner writes
of joy and freedom, for Christ's
crowning came through loss.
Posted by: andy jones | December 03, 2007 at 10:06 PM