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When Christians approach studying the book of Daniel, they most commonly think about beasts and complex prophecies. But what is the value of the stories from the first half of the book?
Dr. Terrell Carter takes a look at these stories and what they tell us about God and ourselves, about living in horrible situations, and responding to unimagined pressure and hardship. How does one maintain a strong relationship with God while living in a land and...
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This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the books of Ezra and Nehemiah
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
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This book, a volume in the Old Testament Library series, explores the books of Haggai and Zechariah.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
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God reveals his true nature in the first five books of the Bible.
While the broader story of the Bible is known to many Christians, careful readers of the Pentateuch still have many questions. The origin story of the Jewish nation is one of hardship and loss. The Transforming Word will encourage you to examine the Scriptures and discover the God who sustains everything.
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Isaiah's servant songs reveal a true and better Adam
In Charged with the Glory of God, Caroline Batchelder provides a synchronic, theological, and canonical reading of the four Servant Songs in Isaiah (42:1–9; 49:1–13; 50:3–11; 52:13–53:12), showing how they relate to one another and the message of the prophetic book.
Reading Isaiah as a compositional unity in conversation with other texts such as Genesis results in a coherent presentation...
26) Psalms
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"Lord, Teach Us to Pray" Deep with feelings of joy, fear, shame, awe, and at times inconsolable rage, the Psalms help readers express a range of emotions in their prayers and their daily lives. The book of Psalms will broaden and deepen your understanding and experience of prayer by following these examples from our spiritual ancestors. They teach us how to express our hearts to God. Enrich your prayers and know God more deeply as He invites you into...
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Serious Bible readers, including biblical scholars, Sunday Bible teachers, laypersons of church, and even the Sunday school kids, ask the question, "Is Balaam a good or bad person?" or "Is Balaam a prophet of God or a pagan diviner?" However, nobody has provided a relieving answer for the question up to this day. Then, what does the Balaam story in the passage of Num 22-24 tell us about the character of Balaam? More fundamentally, what does the passage...
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Serial Study One Chapter at a Time Sequence From GenesisDo you know the Bible? Would you like to learn or deepen your knowledge?Join us as we mine the depths of God's word and you too will be filled with joy as you learn more of the Bible.The commentary Book of Genesis 1 makes references about:God's existence in his blessed TrinityThe divine creation in detailed explanation Structure and compositionThe relationship between verse 1 and 2 of the book...
29) Abide in Christ
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Written in 1888, "Abide in Christ" is Andrew Murray's beautiful and inspiring spiritual guide to a deeper and more meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. While born in South Africa in 1828, as Murray's father was a Dutch Reformed Church missionary sent from Scotland, Murray grew up educated in Scotland and later the Netherlands. He returned to South Africa in 1848 after his ordination, pastored several churches all over South Africa, and was an...
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In this updated edition of the popular textbook An Introduction to the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann and Tod Linafelt introduce the reader to the broad theological scope of the Old Testament, treating some of the most important issues and methods in contemporary biblical interpretation. This clearly written textbook focuses on the literature of the Old Testament as it grew out of religious, political, and ideological contexts over many centuries...
33) The Message of the Prophets: A Survey of the Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books of the Old Testament
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Christians sometimes approach the Old Testament with a mixture of awe and bewilderment, knowing that it contains pearls of wisdom, but unsure how to dive for them ... especially when it comes to the Prophets. In The Message of the Prophets, author J. Daniel Hays offers a scholarly, yet readable and student-friendly survey of the Old Testament prophetic literature that presents the message of each prophet in its historical and its biblical context...
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Jacob and Solomon were polygamists. Tamar and Rahab were prostitutes. What are polygamists and prostitutes doing on the pages of Holy Scripture? And God told the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute. What about Cain-did he really marry his sister? Abraham did, and he was also a polygamist. Lot offered his daughters up for rape, David committed adultery (or rape?) and the Bible calls both men righteous. Love, Old Testament style, was bizarre. As readers...
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In Wilderness, J. D. Walt takes us deep into the challenging story of the Israelites' journey from the Red Sea into the wilderness of crisis and challenge. Here we witness the struggle to trust God in the midst of chaotic circumstances. Cloud by day. Fire by night. Manna in the morning. Quail in the evening. Water from the rock and covenant on the mountain.
As the journey unfolds, we experience tremendous correlations between the cataclysmic crisis...
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This book provides a concise and informative overview of the twelve of the most prominent prophets of the Bible - their call, mission and their methods: Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Moses, Samuel and John the Baptist. The final three chapters looking at the role and message of three lesser-known prophets of the Old Testament.
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In this volume, Jeremias suggests that the book of Amos was produced through various stages over time. While he does write from a critical perspective, his creativity offers a sensitivity to literary issues within the text that is often missing from critical work.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars...
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In this edition of the OneBook Daily-Weekly, professor and Hebrew scholar Michael D. Matlock leads seekers on a twelve-week study of the first six chapters of the book of Daniel. With keen understanding of the perilous times in which Daniel and his friends lived, Dr. Matlock shows students how they can also survive, even thrive, in exile and under pressure-without compromising. Join Dr. Matlock on an exciting journey through stories of courage under...
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The Old Testament book of Ezekiel is quite possibly the most intimidating book of the Bible for Christian readers and it is largely unread and often misunderstood! This concise book has been written to help correct that!
This is not a chapter-by-chapter analysis, nor a verse-by-verse exegesis, but a topic-by-topic examination. The topics include 'Ezekiel's Life and Times', to give us a flavor for the book; 'Visions of God', investigating what is...
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