Outline: The Bible is both a divine and a human book. It is the inspired word of God for his people. whether in biblical times or for the church today. It is also a fully human book, written by different people in a variety of cultural settings. Knowledge of biblical language and society is essential if the meaning of the human writer is to be grasped fully. The Apollos Old Testament Commentary…
Outline: Kingdom of Priests provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Old Testament Israel. Now updated and revised, this volume addresses and interacts with current debates in the history of ancient Israel, offering an up-to-date articulation of a conservative evangelical position on historical matters. The text is accented with nearly twenty maps and charts.
Outline: 1 & 2 Kings, the second volume in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is the first Old Testament commentary in the series. It follows Jaroslav Pelikan's volume on Acts, winner of a 2006 Catholic Press Association Award. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve the church - through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth - and demonstrate…
Outline: In this addition to the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series, Tremper Longman combines a careful exegetical reading of the book of Job with keen theological insights. The series is tailored to the distinctives of poetry and Wisdom literature, featuring emphasis on the message of the biblical book; special attention to poetic structure and literary devices; inc…
Outline: Over twenty-five years in the making, this much-anticipated commentary promises to be the standard stury of Proverbs for years to come. Written by eminent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke, this two-volume work is unquestionably the most comprehensive commentary on Proverbs available. Grounded in the new literary criticism that has so strengthened biblical interpretation of late, Wal…
Outline: Over twenty-five years in the making, this much-anticipated commentary promises to be the standard stury of Proverbs for years to come. Written by eminent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke, this two-volume work is unquestionably the most comprehensive commentary on Proverbs available. Grounded in the new literary criticism that has so strengthened biblical interpretation of late, Wal…
Outline: The second of John Oswalt's two-part study of Isaiah for the NICOT series, this commentary provides exegetical and theological exposition for scholars, pastors, and students who seek to know the perennial meaning of the text in contemporary terms. Though Oswalt's main introduction to Isaiah is found in his commentary on chapters 1-39, this second volume opens with an important discuss…
Outline: For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentary Series, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness, presents the very best work on individual Bible books for today's believers. While other parts of Script…
Outline: Buku ini sangat tepat bagi pembaca yang ingin mempelajari dunia Perjanjian Lama dan mencari tahu bagaimana umat Israel memahami perkataan dan tindakan Tuhan Allah terhadap mereka sebagai umat pilihan.
Outline: Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the Books of Esther and Ruth. Some think that Ruth's attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esther's bold faithfulness saved her people. But a closer reading shows an embittered Naomi to have abondened the Promised Land and God's people, and Esther to have become thoroughly assimilated to the cultu…
Outline: The Hebrew Book of Job is universally acknowledged as an exquisite piece of literary art that ranks among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely recognized as an immensely difficult text to understand. In elucidating that ancient text, this inaugural Illuminations commentary by C. L. Seow pays close attention to the reception history of Job, inc…
Outline: Distinguished Old Testament theologian John Goldingay is often asked about the interpretation of the Bible, the way we are to understand the stories in the Bible, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New, and so on. In this volume he explores twenty-three questions related to biblical interpretation, articulating creative, provocative explanations for today's church. Th…
Outline: Ancient-Future Bible Study is incorporates contemporary study of the Bible with an experience of the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina. Designed for use by individuals or groups, these guides offer a transforming experience of the Word of God. An introduction to lectio divina and leader's notes are included.
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. Notes at the close of…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each u…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each un…
Outline: The New International Biblical Commentary offers the best of contemporary scholarship in a format that both general readers and serious students can use with profit. Based on the widely used New International Version translation the NIBC presents careful section-by-section exposition with key arms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. A separate section of notes at t…
Outline: The New International Biblical Commentary offers the best of contemporary scholarship in a format that both general readers and serious students can use with profit. Based on the widely used New International Version translation, the NIBC presents careful section-by-section exposition with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. A separate section of notes a…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Proverbs & Ecclesiastes, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Song of Songs, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 1 Samuel, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, stu…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Genesis, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, stud…
Outline: As in other volumes of the Cambridge Bible Commentary, there are introductions to the books dealt with, followed by the text of the New English Bible divided into sections. Each section of the text is followed by the commentary upon it. The preaching of the prophets Hagai and Zechariah gave a new impetus to the life of the 'remnant' of the Jewish people returned from the Babylonian …
Outline: The Chronicles, divided into two books purely for convenience, have long suffered from neglect; this is partly because much of their content can be found elsewhere in the Old Testament and partly because their presentation, emphasizing genealogies and ritual ceremonies, has lacked appeal for modern man over the last few hundred years. Yet these books, with their theological interpret…
Outline: This series of commentaries of the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or a few short books, of the Bible and in each the text is given in full. Sections of text and commentary alternate, so that the reader does not have to keep two books open, or turn from one part of the book to the other,…
Outline: This book presents a re-reading of the stories of Old Testament women, highlighting their spirituality and exploring their experiences in the light of third-world women today. In Part One, the author discusses the stories of eight Old Testament women: Hagar, Rahab, Jephthah's daughter, Ruth and Naomi, Abigail, and the two unnamed women of 2 Kings. In her meditations of these images o…
Outline: Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, the authors persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing Genesis 1-11 with primeval histories from the Ancient Near East, the authors urge their readers to apprecia…
Outline: The history of Israel of the Bible remains one of the most holy contested issues in scholarship of the Hebrew Bible today. One of the clearest voices in the debate is that of the author. In the pages of this volume the author distills years of writing on the history of Israel from its beginnings up to the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem (586 B.C.E.). The author divides …
Outline: In this book, the author provides a Hebrew Bible textbook admirably suited to college and university courses in religious studies. At one accessible and comprehensive, this book approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion, carefully distinguishing the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible and discussing such dimensions of religio…
Outline: For decades, millions of Christians have discovered William Barclay's Daily Study Bible to be the ideal New Testament commentary series for both devotional reading and serious Bible study. Now, carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay, this book has been extended into a coverage of the entire Old Testament. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group …
Outline: The author gives us the kind of help we need to overcome the distance between the psalmists' world and ours. He explains the various kinds of psalms, the way they were used in Hebrew worship and their relationship to the rest of the Old Testament. Then he looks at how Christians can appropriate their message and insights today. Turning to the art of Old Testament poetry, he explains…
Outline: The author's purpose in this book is to show how different approaches to the Old Testament can be brought together into single theology. The author confronts the issues through a series of questions that jusxtapose concepts often set in opposition to one another: - Is the Bible a record of God's revelation or of human religion? - How is the "Old" Testament normative if there is also…
Outline: This updated edition of the author's highly successful book includes a new chapter on exegesis of the original biblical texts. Illustrated with numerous examples, this chapter makes the book even more valuable as a guide to exegesis and an aid to sermon preparation. This revised edition also includes an up-to-date bibliography, an analytical table of contents, and indexes of scriptual …
Outline: Penulis memperlihatkan suatu hal yang hampir tidak pernah diungkapkan para penafsir Alkitab tentang penyebab kemalangan Ayub. Ia mengangkat suatu unsur baru yang mesti dikembangkan dalam kitab Ayub yakni objek keluhan Ayub. Di dalam kitab itu Ayub sebenarnya sudah dengan amat jelas mengungkapkan penyebab penderitaanya yakni bahwa ia disingkirkan dan dianiaya oleh komunitas masyarakat d…