The books of Ezekiel and Daniel are rich in imagery that is taken up afresh in the New Testament. Echoes of Ezekiel―with its words of doom and hope, vision of a new temple, and scroll-eating prop…
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, prophesied for four decades under the last five kings of Judah―from 627 to 587 B.C. His a call to repentance. Among the apostolic fathers, Jeremiah was rarely cited…
The benefits of this commentary are numerous. This commentary of Isaiah 40-66 informs post-critical Christian reading and exposition of Isaiah, contains indexes, bibliographies and keys to original…
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." For the early church fathers the prophecy of Isaiah was not a compendium of Jewish history or theology but an announcement of the coming Messiah fulfilled in t…
Among the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon were all thought by the early church fathers to have derived from the hand of Solomon. To their mind…
The Psalms have long served a vital role in the individual and corporate lives of Christians, expressing the full range of human emotions, including some that we are ashamed to admit. The Psalms re…
The Psalms have long served a vital role in the individual and corporate lives of Christians, expressing the full range of human emotions, including some that we are ashamed to admit. The Psalms re…
From its inception the church has always had a Bible―the Jewish Scriptures. But Christians have not read these Scriptures in the same way the Jews did. They have read them in the light of what Go…
From its inception the church has always had a Bible―the Jewish Scriptures. But Christians have not read these Scriptures in the same way the Jews did. They have read them in the light of what Go…
The church fathers, as they did in earlier books dealing with Israel's history from the time of Joshua to the united monarchy, found ample material for typological and moral interpretation in 1-2 K…