You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
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 foreard brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay, The Daily Study Bilble has been extended into a coverage of the entire Old Testament. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use. The Daily Study Bible now provides a useful, eliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Old Testament writers were saying then and what God is saying today.
Tablets of poetic mythological texts unearthed during the excavation of Ugarit have been edited and translated to shed new light on the religion and literature of the ancient world.
Due to the complexity of the speech-cycles in the book of Job, scholars have struggled to resolve interpretive tensions in the author's characterization of Job's three friends. This book focuses on the significance of the ancient Near Eastern social and wisdom contexts for understanding the role that Eliphaz, the leading sage-counselor, fulfills in Job. Given the likely Edomite provenance of Eliphaz and the archaeological evidence linking the respective Israelite and Edomite schools of wisdom, Eliphaz articulates a polished wisdom tradition, the epitome of a worldview shared by Job prior to his calamity. Beyond a simplistic retribution perspective, Eliphaz draws from and refines each of the ...