Published by InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. Bailey, Copyright (c) 2014, p.60 by Kenneth E. Taken from The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament by Kenneth E. The homeward path from the “still waters” was familiar to them, and when the time came they followed it, much to the relief of the shepherd. Terrified, he rushed back to the village and to his delight discovered that the flock had, on their own, wandered home. He told me of how on one occasion he fell asleep in the field with his sheep during the afternoon siesta and awoke some time later only to discover that the flock was gone. While visiting Greece in the late 1990s, I was privileged to have an informative chat with a Greek taxi driver who had worked as a shepherd in his youth. In his excellent study of the famous Biblical passage on shepherds, ( The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament ), scholar Ken Bailey provides helpful context to what shepherding looks like in the Middle East, even up to today: Bailey, Copyright (c) 2014, p.43, by Kenneth E. No turbid streams or ruffled rivulets will tempt them. They continue until every last one of them had found a quiet little pool between stones showing up above the ripples. I learned the valuable lesson that they do not drink from rippling waters. Yet, at their arrival, as I watched them, only a few would be drinking, while others all along the edge of the water, like the pedestrians on a fashionable street in a great metropolis, keep passing each other up and down the stream. He writes, Within sound and sight of water they (the sheep) would all begin to run toward it, showing that they were very thirsty. In that book he records his surprise on discovering that his sheep would not drink from moving water. Later in life, after becoming an Armenian Methodist pastor in America, he wrote a book about his experiences as a shepherd. Born into a family of builders, his father took him out of school to herd a flock of more than a hundred sheep. Krikorian grew up in a village near Tarsus in southeast Turkey. Guide the sheep along safe pathways to their homes, where they will be saved! The number of arrows is limited, so to make them last for the entire trip, you have to erase the used arrows and lay them out again.In this short excerpt, scholar Ken Bailey provides context to the 23 rd Psalm: “He leads me besides quiet waters”: To do this, he has to lay out arrows on the field which the sheep will step on to go in the right direction. The player's objective is to safely lead the sheep under his care through the labyrinths. The most dangerous ones are wolves and pits: Coming across them will cause the player to lose sheep. The sheep will need a wise assistant! The game is an uncomplicated brainteaser consisting of small labyrinths that are filled with various obstacles. The sheep got bored of sitting around at the farm, so they decided to go on a trip! The adventures throughout the trip will be interesting, but risky.
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