{"id":1014,"date":"2010-10-16T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.returningking.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2010-10-16T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T16:00:56","slug":"interpreting-the-bible-14-the-law-of-recurrenct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting the Bible 14 &#8211; The Law of Recurrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series <a href=\"http:\/\/returningking.com\/?series=interpreting-the-bible-vlog-series\" class=\"series-209\" title=\"Interpreting the Bible (Vlog)\">Interpreting the Bible (Vlog)<\/a><\/div><p>(This is a continuation of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.returningking.com\/?page_id=883#interpreting\">Interpreting The Bible<\/a>\u201c\u00a0video blog series.\u00a0 This post assumes the prerequisite watching of earlier videos in the series.\u00a0 Click the link above to watch the entire series up to this week\u2019s installment.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.returningking.com\/images\/horsesunsm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"28\" height=\"40\" \/>This week\u2019s installation involves what is known as <em>The Law of Recurrence.\u00a0 <\/em>This principle exists throughout the scriptures as an event narrated in two or more \u201cpasses.\u201d\u00a0 In such cases, frequently a story is told very generally, and then told again from the beginning but providing additional detail.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is such recurrence very frequent in scripture, it is in fact the technique by which scripture begins itself in the account of creation.\u00a0 Many have seen this particular instance of recurrence as an argument for two separate creation accounts.\u00a0 Others have seen this recurrence as the very frequent literary device that it is: a story told in passes of varying detail and focus.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s consideration of the law of recurrence includes a good deal of example from scripture to assist the interpreter in the understanding of the principle.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15421636&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15421636&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15421636\">Bible Interpretation Pt. 14<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1356046\">Jeff Kluttz<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series <a href=\"http:\/\/returningking.com\/?series=interpreting-the-bible-vlog-series\" class=\"series-209\" title=\"Interpreting the Bible (Vlog)\">Interpreting the Bible (Vlog)<\/a><\/div><p>(This is a continuation of the \u201cInterpreting The Bible\u201c\u00a0video blog series.\u00a0 This post assumes the prerequisite watching of earlier videos in the series.\u00a0 Click the link above to watch the entire series up to this week\u2019s installment.) This week\u2019s installation involves what is known as The Law of Recurrence.\u00a0 This principle exists throughout the scriptures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[99,101],"series":[209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/returningking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}