Week 5 Leviticus 11-15
I’ve thought about creating a list of all the chapters in the bible in declining order – most-interesting at the top all the way down to the least-interesting. It would be a huge project and I wouldn’t do it. But if I did I’d start with the really obvious ones (kind of like finding the perimeter pieces of a jigsaw puzzle first) – fantastically-engaging chapters at the top…on the bottom the grindingly-drudgerous ones. (The in-betweens would be the problem.)
Anyway today I landed on a section that would be very very close to the very bottom of the list. The food laws in chapter 11 for instance. They aren’t interesting at all but they’re by far the most interesting of the whole five-chapter section. After that? Purification instructions related to childbirth. Diagnosing leprosy & contagious skin diseases & sores & infections. Quarantine rules. Cleansing rituals. Seminal discharges & menstruation.
I mentioned the MHJ Weighting-Scale a while back. It’s an informal mental hierarchy where I give a higher-or-lower value to chapters to determine the time I allocate to a passage – it’s a reader’s pace-determination scale. Passages that are interesting informative helpful applicable instructive enlightening relevant engaging & affective will get higher scores. Chapters 11-15 are none-of-the-above so get a dismal score on the MHJ Weighting-Scale.
Which means that today I just put my head down and plowed through fairly quickly.
Note: I talked about the Weighting-Scale back in February 1/21: “weight & speed”