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…
Outline: In two volumes the author provides a masterful interpretation of and lucid commentary on these sorely neglected yet profound books of the Old Testament. This volume of 2 Chronicles continues to build on the groundwork laid by its companion on 1 Chronicles.
Overview: This book is the first in a series of integrated Hebrew language resources (see below) produced by Zondervan in collaboration with the authors. These products have been designed specificaly for use by the beginning student. There is no other collection of resources like it. Feature of this book text:
- Combines both inductive and deductive approaches
- Uses actual examples from th…
Outline: In this stimulating study, the author examines Jeremiah's use of word language; the prophet's formation as an embodiment of the Word of God; his covenant preaching ad the crisis it precipitates concerning the recognition of true prophecy; and, in the 'oracles of hope', how the power of the Word of God is finally made manifest. The author, then brings this reading of Jeremiah to bear on…
Outline: As are all the books in the Reformed Expository Commentary series, this exposition of 1 Samuel is accessible to both pastors and lay readers. Each volume in the series provides exposition that gives careful attention to the biblican text, is doctrinally Reformed, focuses on Christ through the lens of redemptive history, and applies the Bible to our contemporary setting.
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The Expositor's Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Its seventy-eight contributor's come from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand, and from many denominations, including Anglican, Baptist, Brethren, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Reformed. They represent the best in evangelical schola…
Overview: The Apollos Old Testament Commnetary aims to take with equal seriousness the divine and human aspects of Scripture. It expounds the books of the Old Testament in a scholarly manner accessible to non-experts, and shows the relevance of the Old Testament to modern readers. Written by an international team of scholars, the commentaries are intended primarily to serve the needs of thos…
Overview: Penyusunan buku ini dimaksudka sebagai upaya memberi pengantar latar belakang, isi, sifat sastra dan berita masing-masing kitab dalam Perjanjian Lama, namun tidak pula dimaksudkan sebagai pengganti Alkitab itu sendiri. Para penulis percaya sepenuhnya akan pengilhaman dan otoritas Alkitab dan menjunjung tinggi Alkitab sebagai kitab suci. Walaupun para penulis selalu berupaya mengert…
Alkitab berisi banyak ungkapan yang kedengarannya asing di telinga kita. Akibatnya, banyak warga jemaat yang menjadi tidak tertarik membaca Alkitab oleh karena kesulitan dalam memahami ungkapan-ungkapan tersebut.
Buku ini mencoba menerangkan ungkapan-ungkapan yang terdapat di dalam Alkitab yang sukar untuk dimengerti. Melalui buku ini, diharapkan kita sebagai warga jemaat akan terbantu untuk m…
The first monograph devoted to this perennial question in Psalm study for three-quarters of a century, Croft's work provides a fresh and comprehensive treatment. The initial chapters approach the central issue via the associated problems of the identity of the psalmists' enemies and the psalmists' description of themselves as 'poor'. In the remaining three chapters all the psalms in which an …
This original study offers, for the first time, an analysis of the characterization of Esther as she is portrayed in each of the three primary versions of the book of Esther-the Masoretic text, the Septuagint text, and the Greek a text. This study of characterization has implications beyond itself. It permits a reasssessment of relations between the book of Esther and other literature of the ti…