Old Testaments Books

2024 Reprint of the 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Sex and the Garden of Eden by Maynard Shipley, published in 1927, is a critical examination of the biblical narrative of Adam...

Examines the evolution, interpretation, and application of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible regarding intermarriage in order to recover and describe the logical and exegetical operations by which biblical laws could be applied to situations,...

For decades, the Book of Job has held universal appeal because it is often described as a book of integrity, loyalty, and patience. Begin reading and you'll discover that this man who lost everything is far from exercising these attributes. His thinking...

Mission in the Marketplace  What can the prophet Daniel teach us about serving in God's mission? Daniel was not a priest or official religious leader-he was a forcibly displaced Israelite, who became a public administrator in the Babylonian and...

In general the Old Testament book of Proverbs provides a compendium of seemingly random succinct universal truths about godly wisdom. However, chapters 1-9 offer a coherent curriculum that teaches the reader how to acquire wisdom and build one's life on...

The prophet Amos is known for fiery messages directed at the elites of the northern kingdom of Israel in ancient times. Can this prophet also speak to us in America today?This book looks at the message that Amos proclaimed and applies it to parallel...

In YHWH's Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach, Daniel O. McClellan addresses the longstanding question of how it is that divine images could be referred to as if they both were and were not the deities they represented. Drawing insights from the fields...

In his final years, Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973) completed three short works. The present book is the last of these. The first, Thy Kingdom Come: The New Evolution of the Good, and the second, Lazarus: The Miracle of Resurrection in World...

Standing on the promises of God, many either proclaim or sing, yet without the understanding of Covenant, believing faith is challenged before it even gets started. Sadly, many are losing hope in the face of tragedy and trials.Embracing the truths...

The purpose of the this book, is to prevent the office of the prophet from being ignored and abused. To many churches suffer, because they lack the insight to God's plans. Our goal is shed light on this office and restore it's true purpose. By reading...

The quest to live much longer has moved from legend to the laboratory. Recent breakthroughs in genetics and pharmacology have put humanity on the precipice of slowing down human aging to extend the healthy life span. The promise of longer, healthier life...

Since 1929, scholars have been concerned with the interpretation of certain Canaanite literary materials found at Ras Shamra in North Syria, known as Ugarit in ancient times. Attention has been paid, primarily, to certain linguistic and cultural...

Can the Old Testament help us in keeping the excesses of capitalism in check? How can a book that goes on about "justice and righteousness," but says "there will always be poor people in the land" and accepts slavery have anything to say to us about...

The thirteen essays in this volume engage biblical texts from the three books in the Hebrew Bible associated with the wisdom tradition in ancient Israel: Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. These three books provide deep theological reflection on everyday...

The place of religion within a secular society has been much discussed in recent years, fueled in part by Charles Taylor's Secular Age (2007). The conversation surrounding Taylor's work suggests a widespread interest in religion in secular or...

The pastor who seeks to preach expositionally through Psalms faces a daunting task, for the sermon series would take several years to complete and many of the sermons would seem repetitious because of similar psalms. To respond to this challenge the...

The text of the Torah includes not only its words, but also various atypical scribal features. Prime among these are the dots over certain letters, various letters written either large or small, and the exceedingly odd placement of two inverted Hebrew...

Love, seduction, betrayal, violence, riddles, and myth all find their place in the biblical story of Samson. Samson is the last of the judges, with 20 percent of the book devoted to him--more than any other judge. From the beginning, Samson is unlike any...

"Angels are appointed by the Holy Spirit to minister in accordance with the spiritual gifts that have been imparted to you.""There have been many times that the presence of God was so strong we could see His angels ministering in the midst of the...

Read the Old Testament for the first time. Again. Experience it as an actual story for the first time. This unique book takes the reader inside the biblical narrative for a fresh encounter with God's Word. Often we read the Old Testament looking for how...

A Time to Live and a Time to Die will inspire its readers through a greater understanding of God's seasons for humanity as revealed by Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes. It describes in poetry and rhyme the ever-changing nature of the seasons yet their...

The book of Proverbs is a cornucopia of practical wisdom on a variety of topics. The insights and truths covered in this book of ancient Hebrew Wisdom literature run the gamut including the nature of true wisdom and understanding, vices and virtues,...

Gripping stories, whether modern or ancient, always include heroes and villains. The Synoptic Gospels, chock full of villains (religious leaders and others) in pursuit of an emerging hero (Jesus), are no different. Drawing first-century Jews into their...

This book provides a thorough study of the sole biblical foundation of marriage as given in the short description of Genesis 2:24: ""For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh...

What if the way the book of Esther has been taught to us in church and retold to us in films, cartoons, and romance novels has missed the original point of the story? Far from being models of piety and devotion, Esther and Mordecai seem indifferent to...

Individuals and groups reading the Scriptures for their own enrichment can find appropriate guides for Genesis and Exodus. Numbers is another matter. The complexities of ritual laws, holy days, moral codes, and conflicts experienced by Moses and the...

Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah are women often condemned to be only the shadow of their male opposite numbers. However, each one of them had a privileged role, often a decisive role, in the formation of the people of God. Their place was not...

Early literary man learned that free speech and free labor were frequently suppressed or obliterated by powerful governments in the Near Eastern world. This is the source of the Bible's passionate interest in liberation from political and economic...

How are we to see the Old Testament's characters--typically a tangle of both virtue and vice--as models for our own ethical living? It is clear that Scripture intends for us to embody some qualities while eschewing others, and at times these are...

When we read old family letters or hear stories about our great-grandparents, they hold our attention in a particular way. Events from long before we were born are about us: they tell us something important about who we are. If there's a story about...

How does one summarize the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament? How might one determine the message of the Old Testament with others? This book attempts an answer to these questions. The answer is taken from a single Scripture passage, Exodus...

Isaiah 7:14 is one of the most debated verses in all of Scripture. Scholars from all backgrounds have provided countless works on the interpretation of this one verse. Yet, there is no decisive material that confirms exactly what the verse means. The...

Originally published in 1907. Contains detailed notes and explanations of Genesis. Contents Include: Genesis 1 - 2 - 3-5 - 6-8 - 9-13 - 14-19 - 20-23 - 24-25 - 26, 27 - 28 - 29-31 - 1-3

It is the purpose of the present volume to show that intelligent Christians have a reasonable ground for concluding that the text of the Old Testament which we have is substantially correct, and that, in its true and obvious meaning, it has a right to be...

""Israel's Prayer In Time Of Trouble, With God's Gracious Answer Thereunto: Or An Explication Of The Fourteenth Chapter Of The Prophet Hosea"" is a religious book written by Edward Reynoldes in 1645. The book provides an in-depth explanation of the...

Six Major Prophets is a book written by Edwin Emery Slosson in 1917. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the six major prophets of the Old Testament, namely Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Book of the Twelve. Slosson...

Athalie est une trag�����die �����crite par Jean Racine en 1691. L'histoire se d�����roule dans le royaume de Juda et suit la reine Athalie, qui est la fille d'Achab et de J�����zabel. Athalie a pris le pouvoir apr�����s la mort de son mari et a...

Das Buch ""Skizzen und Vorarbeiten, Buch 1"" wurde im Jahr 1884 von Julius Wellhausen ver������ffentlicht. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Vorarbeiten und Skizzen zu verschiedenen Themen, darunter Religion, Geschichte und Sprache. Die Arbeit von...

""Abriss der Einleitung zum Alten Testament in Tabellenform"" ist ein Buch von Paul Kleinert, das im Jahr 1878 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch ist eine tabellarische Zusammenfassung der Einleitung zum Alten Testament und bietet einen �����berblick...

Guillaume Tell, Ou La Suisse Libre: Et Eliezer Et Naphthali, Poeme Traduit De L'Hebreu (1820) est un livre �����crit par De Florian, Jean Pierre Claris. Le livre est une traduction de deux po�����mes, Guillaume Tell et Eliezer Et Naphthali, de...

A Kereszty�����n Egyh�����zi �����v �����s a Perik������p�����k (1888) c������m����� k������nyv Guggenberger J�����nos �����ltal ������r������dott. A k������nyv a kereszt�����ny egyh�����zi �����v �����s az azt k������s�����r����� perik������p�����k...

On The Origin Of The Primitive Historical Traditions Of The Hebrews is a book written by August Dillmann in 1883. The book explores the history and origins of the Hebrew people and their primitive historical traditions. Dillmann delves into the ancient...

Notes On The Book Of Leviticus (1880) is a religious commentary written by Charles Henry Mackintosh. The book provides a detailed analysis of the biblical Book of Leviticus, which is the third book of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. Mackintosh's...

""Notes On The Book Of Job: With A New Version (1879)"" is a book written by William Kelly. The book is a comprehensive study of the biblical book of Job, which is part of the Old Testament. The author provides a new version of the book of Job, along...

Fifty-Two Old Testament Lessons For Sunday Schools: Gradation 3 is a book written by Charles Baker and first published in 1858. The book is intended for use in Sunday Schools and contains 52 lessons based on stories and events from the Old Testament. The...