Here are some snapshots since my last update.
My youngest child, Miriam, married Kade. It was a meaningful marriage that matched Kade and Miriam’s personalities and honored the creator of marriage. Below is a picture of Kade and Miriam along with a picture of Miriam and I.
Donna’s mom, Mary, had hip replacement surgery and stayed with us during her recovery for two weeks. Mary is doing well, back in her apartment and looking forward to the day she does not have to worry with movement restrictions.
I am teaching Synoptic Gospels online. This is the course I was to teach in person back in March before I had to quickly leave Kenya due to a COVID outbreak (see COVID Challanges, Leaving Kenya, and Back for details). There was a one week synchronous orientation (both students and I online at the same time) and now three months of asynchronous learning (students and I online at different times working on assignments and projects with due dates to keep things moving forward).
One of the interesting things that we deal with in Synoptic Gospels is the longer ending in Mark. Many Bibles have a note indicating that Mark 16:9-20 is not in older manuscripts. I put together a document showing two Greek manuscripts. One with the longer ending and one without. I marked and commented on the manuscripts so that you do not have to be a Greek scholar to see that one has the longer ending and other does not. If you are interested, have a look: The Ending of Mark. Below is a picture of Codex Alexandrinus and the longer ending in Mark from the document.
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