Jewish texts: Tanakh, Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim Books

<b>1 and 2 Chronicles are the final books of the Hebrew Old Testament.</b> They are more than mere history. They are a God-inspired sermon which explains what God has done, what God is doing and what God is planning to do. They reveal the...

After a long and painful wait for the Jewish exiles, Ezra and Nehemiah lead their people back to the Promised Land. Despite hardships and setbacks, they would rebuild their nation in time for the arrival of its Messiah. Whenever we are tempted to doubt...

The Straight to the Heart series of devotional commentaries allows people to get to grips with each book of the Bible one bite at a time. In part one of the Minor Prophets we study Amos and Hosea, the two prophets sent by God to confront the northern...

God inspired the Bible for a reason. He wants you to read it and let it change your life. If you are willing to take this challenge seriously, then you will love Phil Moore's devotional commentaries. Their bite-sized chapters are punchy and relevant, yet...

Continuing where the first New Beacon Bible Commentary on Psalms left off, NBBC Psalms 73-150 expertly explores relevant details of these prayers and hymns such as their poetic features, theological emphases, and types (thanksgiving psalms, praise...

Love, faithfulness, and redemption are among the themes of Ruth, Song of Songs, and Esther. This masterful New Beacon Bible Commentary, written by three accomplished scholars, highlights the unique features of each of these three biblical books. Ruth's...

Did the Hebrew mind work differently from those of people in the Western tradition of civilization? This long-discredited question still lingers in biblical studies. Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel approaches the topic of the Israelite mind...

In Exodus 32-34, through a series of dialogues, Moses persuades God to spare the Israelites from destruction after they have made and worshipped a golden calf. The significance of this passage was not lost on ancient interpreters. At the heart of their...

Original sin, widely denied today, is nevertheless the condition in which our spiritual life begins. Fetal psychology helps one see original sin as a psychic negation of the created reflections in Christ of the traits of divine love within the Trinity...

In the book of Jeremiah, gendered imagery appears in central passages. A first of its kind, this study follows the development of these gendered images through the entire prophetic book. Feminist hermeneutics and literary approaches join to show that...

This is an exhaustive and perceptive analysis of the use of mispat and sdq in the Hebrew Bible and in particular the Eighth-Century Prophets. The author focuses on the social critique of these prophets and the role of mispat and sdq in this development...

Nearly all English translations of the Bible during the last third of the twentieth century have changed the wording of the sixth commandment from "kill" to "murder." The Hebrew word that appears in the commandment has a broader semantic range than...

It is common to read the Bible as tracing Israel's origins to the patriarchs, who received God's promises and with whom began the history of God and the chosen people. This view matches neither the biblical traditions nor Judaism's self-understanding...

This unusual collection of poems, illustrated with monochrome watercolor paintings, takes its inspiration from the Old Testament book of Jonah, the familiar story of the stubborn prophet who did not want to preach to Nineveh. The poems make their...

This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with 'ābh ('āb), "father," and...

David O. Bales invites preachers of the word to work through the lectionary, allowing the Holy Spirit to inspire and enlighten the process along the way. Throughout the Lectionary Preaching Workbook, Bales urges pastors to discover many ways to deliver...

We may think of them as the leaders of tomorrow, but the kids you minister to are already leaders—they’re the leaders of today. In hallways, on playing fields, and in their own homes, students are influencing the lives that surround them...

The Bible Among the Myths is a sometimes controversial, always engaging corrective to a growing rejection in Western society of the revelation found within the Old Testament regarding a transcendent God who breaks into time and space and reveals himself...

Pursuing Spiritual Authenticity - part of the Truth for Today small-group series - takes you through the words of the prophets and unveils truths that help you enter new levels of spiritual maturity. The prophets' words trumpet across the centuries,...

In The Old Testament and God, Craig G. Bartholomew offers an innovative, compelling new introduction that takes a critical realist approach to our understanding of the history, literature and theology of the Old Testament.Opening up a distinctly...

In this book, John Goldingay examines five approaches to the interpretation of the Old Testament: as a faith, a way of life, the story of salvation, witness to Christ, and Scripture.Dr. Goldingay has a detailed knowledge of an enormous range of scholarly...

With a title adapted from Deuteronomy 6:24, For Our Good Always is a collection of 25 essays from evangelical scholars on the message of Deuteronomy and its influence on Christian Scripture. No other book colors the tapestry of biblical thought quite like...

How does one navigate living religiously in a secular world? Where life is governed not just by the laws of faith, but by the laws of the state as well, what does ""doing the right thing"" actually mean? When people think about the interplay between...

A tragic world ravaged by conflict. A world in which powerful political states act ruthlessly, with millions upon millions of lives devastated. Across the globe, from continent to continent, in state after state, political power is wielded in ways that...

Ce livre sert de guide à ceux qui veulent approfondir les Écritures. Il contient des principes bibliques pratiques et encourageants qui feront de votre vie professionnelle une œuvre concrète dirigée par la sagesse de...

Speaking of grace, it is important to emphasize that we are not only saved by grace but sanctified by grace. Works cannot save the sinner (2:16), nor sanctify the saint (3:1-5). The law stands absolutely powerless to sanctify us as it did to save us; it...

En este libro, encontrarás las instrucciones divinas y prácticas documentadas en Deuteronomio que están diseñadas para orientar nuestras vidas laborales. Exploraremos los aspectos clave de la labor desde el punto de vista de...

In the mid 3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Israelite scriptures for the Library of Alexandria, which resulted in the creation of the Septuagint. The original version, published circa 250 BC, only...

Prior to completing a series of teachings, the author, P.D. Dalling once more sought Yeshua as she so often does for the next assignment. A few days later on a hot Saturday afternoon, a call came from a devoted Saint of God and watchmanliving in the...

This study is a comparative study of the asham sacrificial concepts of the Israelites (Jews) of the Old Testament times and the contemporary Asante religion of the Asante people of Ghana in West Africa.The results from the study show that there are...

JONATHAN BEN UZIEL, the author of the Aramaic Translation of the major and minor Prophets lived thirty years before the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was a disciple of Hillel. This author is held by the Jews in the highest esteem. His Translation is...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Gabriel soon finds himself at a secret underground anarchist meeting place, under oath not to disclose its existence to...

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,...