Before I went to bed last night, I worked on my homework for my seminary class that looks at Christmas and Easter texts and considers what they mean when looked at without the middle part of the story. For our homework, we look at the Bible text and come up with 10 questions or observations. Then we write two paragraphs that respond to the secondary reading and come up with two questions for class discussion.
Our text this week was Luke 1: 5-56, which includes the story of Elizabeth. I had written a bit about why it was so important to be clear that Joseph had nothing to do with the creation of the baby Jesus and wondered what it would have been like had we not worried about proving the paternity of Jesus.
That thought led me to this question: "If Elizabeth had been the one to give birth to Jesus, if Jesus had come from a barren womb, from an elderly female body, would the shape of Christianity be different?" I had never thought about this question, and now I can't stop.
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