Old Testament category: 2690 books

With over two million church leaders working in the more than ten million parishes, congregations, seminaries, and houses of religious formation around the world, it is important that all the people of God of every church have selfless church leaders who reflect the mind of Christ. But how can church...

Through the lens of social-scientific criticism, Christian Fasting: Biblical and Evangelical**Perspectives explores the social, cultural, and religious significance of fasting in the first-century Mediterranean world. Old Testament precedents, as well as Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman influences are...

Reformation 21's 2015 End of Year Review of Books "Who shall ascend the mountain of the LORD?" —Psalm 24:3 In many ways, this is the fundamental question of Old Testament Israel’s cult—and, indeed, of life itself. How can creatures made from dust become members of God's household "forever"?...

The book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes and applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God. A striking feature of the book is the way in which every word of God...

This book, followed by two volumes of commentary, considers the historical background to the book of Daniel and wrestles with historical problems. It examines the structure and unity of the book, evaluates the significance of the use of narrative, compares the book with apocalypses and prophecy, identifies...

Aren’t we all God’s children? Don’t we all belong to the family of God? Would it surprise you to learn that in the Old Testament God doesn’t call Himself our father and doesn’t refer to people as His children? Being a member of the human race doesn’t mean we automatically qualify for membership...

It can be a challenge to understand the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature and how it relates to biblical history and theology, but John L. McLaughlin makes this complicated genre straightforward and accessible. This introductory-level textbook begins by explaining the meaning of wisdom to...

A Brief Bible History : A Survey of the Old and New Testaments   That drama was a tragedy. It became a tragedy because of man's sin. The wonderful poem of creation in Gen., ch. 1, has for the refrain of its six stanzas, "God saw that it was good." Best of all was man, the last...

What is the central theme of the Bible?Given the diversity of authorship, genre, and context of the Bible’s various books, is it evenpossible to answer such a question? Or in trying to do so, is an external grid being unnaturallysuperimposed on the biblical text?These are difficult questions that...

La Sainte Bible : qui comprend l'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament traduits sur les textes originaux Hébreu et Grec par Louis Segond (1899) Louis Segond, né le 3 octobre 1810 à Plainpalais (au centre de Genève) et mort le 18 juin 1885 à Genève, est...

  On trouve dans la littérature juive classique appelée “midrash”, des passages qui ressemblent étrangement aux narrations évangéliques. Les Evangiles seraient-ils un prolongement du midrash juif ?    En approfondissant...

De Bijbel is niet altijd eenvoudig te begrijpen. Vooral de zogenaamde struikelteksten, de lastige bijbelgedeelten, kunnen hoofdbrekens en eindeloze discussies opleveren. Maar als je het goed aanpakt en je niet te snel uit het veld laat staan, kun je de boodschap van lastige teksten meestal wel achterhalen....

“In the last days,” God says, “I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your young men will see visions, Your old men will dream dreams.” Acts 2:17 As the Old Testament story of Joseph illustrates, one of the ways God leads His people is through...

In this thought-provoking study, Dan Lioy asserts that a Christocentric and Christotelic perspective is an unmistakable feature of Paul’s discourse. The journey begins with an analysis of the old Adamic creation in Genesis 1–3 before digressing into representative passages from Paul’s writings,...