Discussion Questions
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Read Acts 27:14. To which type of wind is Luke referring, and how does it play a role in this story?
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This would be a frontal wind and the wind is very strong. Shipping closes down they are so fierce.
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This is a frontal wind, which makes travel on the Mediterranean dangerous in winter – hence the shipwreck.
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The type of wind mentioned in this story is a Northeaster which caused a storm. I think this is a frontal wind because of its strength and the damage it caused to the ship.
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Very violent winter winds which made sailing in the Mediterranean unsafe, so shipping was stopped because of the danger of the wind. Paul’s shipwreck story was probably from these winds–they waited too late to sail and were caught in the stormy sea.
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A Hurricane-force wind called a Northeaster which caused a shipwreck.
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How are the summer and winter seasons most like and unlike the weather where you live?
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The Summer season is the season where things come to life in NYC! It is very hot and the humidity is quite high. Travel is at an all time high within the City and the farmer’s markets are open, with their fare on display. It is not particularly rainy during the Summer. Fall is the season for rain. The Winters can be harsh and intensely cold just before the transitional point, i.e. the point that is not yet Spring, but clearly not Winter. The transitions are the hardest and most unpredictable here as well. We experience quite a few storms in the transitional periods, with temperatures up and down, until things stabilize in the new season. In Ancient Israel, much like Israel today, the Summer was the season where things slowed and water collection increased because it was rainy season. Winter was the opposite, with trade up and about, military operations in full swing.
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Their summers are much cooler.
We have high humidity in the summer like they do.
Summer is when we usually have our strongest storms.
Summer here is when most of the farming is done where I live.
Summer is hurricane season here.
Our winters are milder and with less rain.
We get less snow than they do.
Most of the crops have already been gathered.
Our rainfall is usually more spread out over the whole year than in the Promise Land and close areas receive about the same amount of rain unlike in the Promised Land.. -
They say we have four seasons in Texas: almost summer, summer, a little more summer, and Christmas which is discernible by our yard art not by the weather.
Our temps range from 64 degrees in January on a steady climb to a peak of 110 in August and right back down the staircase to 64 come December. We only average an inch of rain a month but we have frequent droughts. Occasionally we see a freak cold wave that brings a spurt of snow. Our winds seem to come from nowhere bringing slight breezes to those winds that knock down tree limbs.
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Florida seems to also only have two seasons but our temperatures are about 10 degrees hotter in both summer and winter. We get rain mostly between July and December
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We have four seasons–spring, summer, fall and winter.
Summer is warm and sunny mostly. We have rainfall and plant during this time. This is vacation time also.
Winter is cold and snowy. No planting or harvesting.
We have wind in both seasons.
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Read Job 15:2. To which type of wind is Job referring, and how does it play a role in what he is saying?
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A khamsin wind which drives the temperature up by 25 degrees very quickly and because it is coming off of the desert sand it fills the air with a dust that makes it hard to breathe
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The Khamsin wind–it blows from the east–is hot and causes discomfort from sand and haze.
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Khamsin Wind
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““Would a wise person answer with empty notions
or fill their belly with the hot east wind?” – This must be a khamsin (fifty). This is an East Wind (from the east…dust and heat). -
Job could be referring to the khamsin wind, described as the east wind from the desert. These are nasty winds that gust up to 60mph, lift temperatures by 25F, reduce humidity to 2 percent and fill the air with dust and haze. . They irritate everyone and have no redeeming features, unlike the Mediterranean Sea breeze which is ‘natural air conditioning’ during the summer months and aids with threshing.
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What is the relationship of the rainfall cycle to the cycle of grain agriculture in ancient Israel?
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When the rains come then the grain agricultural cycle can begin. In ancient Israel, this was in the Winter season between October and April. There was lower humidity and pressure, and regular cycles of precipitation, low pressure.
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Rain falls in the winter months and this is when grain crops are planted and tended.
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The wet winter season in Israel runs from October to April, and 82% of Israel’s rain falls from December to February, with the northern part receives most of the rainfall. Therefore, the winter is when the ground is filled with water, which is also ideal for cultivating grains. Summer month is the harvest month as the Mediterranean Sea breeze will help them separate the grain kernel from the chaff.