The Psalms speak to the depths of human experience, provoking words and images to express anger, sorrow, lament, thanksgiving, joy, and worshipful praise. They are as relevant today as they were to the ancient peoples who first composed them.
This introductory textbooks is intended for upper division college and seminary courses on biblical hermeneutics.
What is the nature of the authority of Scripture, and in what sense does the Old Testament share that authority? What place does the Old Testament legitimately occupy in the Christian's Bible and in the church's proclamation? What principles ought to guide one in interpreting it to the congregation? These are the questions with which this book will attempt to deal, with what success the reader …
Parallel title in Hebrew script on additional title page Indonesian-Hebrew bilingual dictionary
"Second printing with afterword, 1997"--Title page version
This introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Scholars have made significant progress in recent decades in understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax. Yet intermediate readers seldom have access to this progress due to the technical jargon and sometimes-obscure locations of the scholarly publications. This Guide is an intermediate…
Examines the background of the prophetic tradition with an interpretation of the major and minor prophets, using historical context and literary form and structure as tools in his analysis. The author concludes with an explanation of the relevance of the prophetic word to contemporary life.