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    Journey: Lesson 8 - The Roots of Kingship
    Journey: Lesson 8 - The Roots of Kingship
    Journey: Lesson 8 - The Roots of Kingship
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    Journey: Lesson 8 - The Roots of Kingship

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 8 of the Journey Bible Study Programs. In this lesson we learn of Samuel and Abimelech. We learn of the struggle of the People to find a form of leadership and organization suited to their life in the Land while keeping their faith and tradition. In chapter 2 we learn how Saul was chosen as the first King of Israel as the People struggle to accept kingship as their new form of leadership.In chapter 3 the commentary on" Dei Verbum" continues.

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateJan 8, 2014
    ISBN9781927766118
    Journey: Lesson 8 - The Roots of Kingship
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    Marcel Gervais

    About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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      Journey - Marcel Gervais

      Journey-Lesson 8- The Roots Of Kingship

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

      This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords

      Cover: . Samuel! Samuel! He answered Here I am.. 1Sam 3:4

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs ln the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction ln whole or ln part is Prohibited.

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      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Samuel and Abimelech: the Old and the New

      Chapter 2 Saul: the Attempt at a Compromise

      Chapter 3 Commentary on Dei Verbum, number 12

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Eight

      About The Author

      Psalm 23

      This is a Psalm of trust in God, the great king. The king was called shepherd in many ancient Near Eastern cultures (2 Sam 7:8). The psalmist praises God's kingly attributes and thereby outlines the qualities necessary for a good human king. The good king leads his people wisely; he protects them from the hostile foe and ensures that none of his sub¬jects ever goes hungry.

      Lesson Objective:To describe the struggle of the People to find a form of leadership and organization suited to their life in the Land and in keeping with their faith and tradition.

      Introduction

      We saw, in Lesson Seven, the Tribes settling in the Land and struggling to maintain their grip on it. We saw in Deborah and Gideon, how the Tribes of the north tended to unite under a strong leader to fight their enemies. And we also saw the Tribes of the south barely surviving under the Philistines. The People were in the Land, they had overcome most of the strong Canaanite city-states, but they were not organized into a single nation. They had destroyed the Canaanite control of the Land, but they had not replaced it with anything solid yet.

      This situation would not have been serious if there had not been other groups wanting control of the territory which the People had taken. But there were such groups, and they were preparing to take advantage of the unstable situation created by the downfall of Canaanite control of the Land: the Ammonites to the east, and the Philistines to the west.

      The Tribes had relied on Judges, leaders whom God raised up to fight their battles; but these Judges never managed to unite all the Tribes in a

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