Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. CLOTHING I spent three muggy summer months in Japan when I was twenty, during which time a generous host family outfitted me … Clothing
Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. RAINBOW Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There’s a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the … Rainbow
* * Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. * CHAIR Just about eleven o’clock, the door-latch was raised quietly, and in stepped the master. He threw himself into a chair, … Chair
Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. HOUSE “ ‘My grandmother,’ I said in a low tone, ‘would have said that we were all in exile, … House
Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. ROAD “‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step into the Road, and … Road
LAMB Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go . . . This nursery rhyme, first published in 1830, … Lamb
Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. HEART Geppetto carved Pinocchio out of a piece of enchanted firewood that came from a tree the old man had engraved, many years before, … Heart
Welcome to my ROLLED SCROLL study, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible in an attempt to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. SNOW In the 2008 drama/thriller Transsiberian, an American man and woman travelling on a train from Beijing to Moscow enter the world of drugs and murder, the whole … Snow
Welcome to my blog, ROLLED SCROLL, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. STAR Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight . . … Star
Welcome to my blog, ROLLED SCROLL, where I follow cultural and literary images found in the Bible to unearth God’s meaning in His pattern of usage. PERFUME Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air. —Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” … Perfume