Isaiah is a book of soaring spiritual insight and stirring declaration of the promise of God
This section brings together the detail of the Comment to show how the passage under consideration seeks to communite as a whole.
Proverbs - a book full of wisdom - and yet a book demanding all one's wisdom to use
Darek Kidner in this introduction and commentary to the books of Ezra and Nehemiah which chart the Jews' return from exile to Jerusalem and the beginnings of that rebirth.
In particular he brings out forcibly the book's present relevance
A passage- by passage analysis follow which draws useful insights on Old Testament ritual from modern social antrophology
The books of Samuel carry the history og God's people Israel through from the period of the judges to their first experiments in monarchy.
The book of psalms does not only want to inform our intellect, but to stimulate our imagination,arouse our emotions and stir us on to holy thoughts and actions
In the Old Testament iin particular no single English translation is adequate to reflect the original text.