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Hebrew Word Study: Exploring the Mind of God reveals the thoughts and plans of our Creator-Father as revealed in the deeper meanings of Hebrew words in Scripture. Chaim Bentorah highlights many Old Testament passages that reveal the loving nature of God, as opposed to the vindictive nature that is...

The Chronicler wrote as a pastoral theologian. The congregation he addressed was an Israel separated from its former days of blessing by a season of judgment. The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles bring a divine word of healing and reaffirm the hope of restoration to a nation that needed to regain its footing...

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them. Part of the Essentials of Biblical Studies series, this volume presents readers with an overview of exegesis by mainly focusing on a self-contained narrative to be read...

In the Bible there are many different forms of the word "day" which get translated into the English word "day". We go through the old testament to discover the different forms of the Hebrew that get translated as "day" and suggest a more appropriate definition. These better definitions shed light...

This is a new, literal translation and commentary of Zechariah's prophetic dreams (i.e., chapters 1-6). Utilizing quotes from Feinberg, Kimchi, Rashi, Stonard, Pusey and Barnes (etc.), these fascinating pages from the Hebrew Old Testament are explored and interpreted. The commentary is written from a fundamental Christian perspective ("dispensational").

Streams of Mercy: Ruth and Esther -- When God seems absent. The Streams of Mercy Series is dedicated to helping God's people drink deeply from his life giving Word. A fast-paced study of the Old Testament books of Ruth and Esther.

As For Me and My House walks readers through the historical books of the Old Testament, chapter by chapter, resting just long enough to glean a devotional lesson and Christian application along the way. Its lessons are thoughtful enough for meditation and practical enough for everyday life....

The Asia Bible Commentary Series empowers Christian believers in Asia to read the Bible from within their respective contexts. Holistic in its approach to the text, each exposition of the biblical books combines exegesis and application. The ultimate goal is to strengthen the Body of Christ in Asia...

In this book, we complete our ill-fated trip through the rest of the Old Testament and its endless supply of prophecies. From Ezra to Ezekiel, from Job to Jonah, and from soup to nuts, we will witness what happens when a prophetic record is broken waaay too many times. WARNING: Not recommended for reading by religious Christians. Last Updated: January 15, 2018

This volume of the Streams of Mercy Study Series is devoted to two Old Testament prophetic writings: Isaiah 1-12 and Micah. Both prophets have unique qualities, but they also have much in common. In contrast, Isaiah was an urban prophet in Jerusalem and Micah was a rural prophet. However, both address...

The question that launches Job’s story is posed by God at the outset of the story: “Have you considered my servant Job?” (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice...

In History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years after "Historicity", Hjelm and Thompson argue that a ‘crisis’ broke in the 1970s, when several new studies of biblical history and archaeology were published, questioning the historical-critical method of biblical scholarship. The crisis...

Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones...

On appelle « littérature apocalyptique » une masse d'écrits organiques que les juifs anciens, du IVe siècle avant J.-C. à la fin du IIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne, ne cessèrent de produire et de promouvoir (.). Les textes chrétiens du Nouveau Testament sont eux-mêmes, pour nombre d'entre eux, en tout ou en partie, largement apocalyptiques.