or many years the authors and publishers have sensed the need for a modern, practical Bible commentary from a broadly evangelical and uniquely Wesleyan perspective—the Wesleyan Bible Commentary meets this need. This commentary series aims for a high level of sound biblical scholarship, with a purpose that is practical rather than technical. The design of the series is evangelical, expositiona…
Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. In this landmark work, Alter's masterly translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive edition of The Five Books.
This volume makes available both the most recent European scholarship on the Pentateuch and its critical discussion, providing a helpful resource and fostering further dialogue between North American and European interpreters. The contributors are Erhard Blum, David M. Carr, Thomas B. Dozeman, Jan Christian Gertz, Christoph Levin, Albert de Pury, Thomas Christian Roemer, Konrad Schmid, and John…
Buku ini bukan sebuah tafsiran, meskipun di dalamnya akan di sediakan suatu panorama tafsiran menyeluruh tentang Kitab Kejadian, terutama dalam pasal 7-9. Seperti buku-buku pendahulunya dalam seri ini, yang memeriksa Mazmur dan Amsal, Panorama Kejadian adalah suatu penelusuran tentang pendekatan yang tepat untuk menafsirkan Kitab Kejadian.
When Jean Louis Ska's Introduzione alla lettura del Pentateuco was first published in Italy, it was quickly hailed as the most attractive and usable introduction to the Pentateuch to appear in modern times. Because of its strengths, it was soon translated into French. The English translation published by Eisenbrauns has been completely reviewed and updated (including the bibliography) by Ska. A…
This volume in the Encountering Biblical Studies series fills that void. Readings from the Ancient Near East takes the student through a wide variety of primary source texts from the ancient Near East that illuminate every book of the Old Testament. It is the companion volume to Encountering the Old Testament, coauthored by Bill Arnold and Bryan Beyer.
Jens Bruun Kofoed addresses the methodological issues that must lie behind the use of the biblical text and its validation as a source for historical information. --from publisher desscription.
Although scholars have for centuries primarily been interested in using the study of ancient Israel to explain, illuminate, and clarify the biblical story, Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars today seek more and more to tell the story of the past on its own terms, drawing from both biblical and extrabiblical sources to illuminate ancient Israel and its neighbors without p…
Buku-buku ini mengajak para pendeta dan warga gereja usia dewasa menggali kekayaan khazanah Alkitab, menikmati 1001 cerita dan belajar bahwa pesan Alkitab jauh lebih ampuh disampaikan dalam bentuk narasi dan deskripsi daripada bentuk ajaran abstrak dan preskripsi.
Pada buku ketiga ini penulis mengangkat kisah-kisah yang bersumber dari Kitab Yosua hingga Kitab 2 Raja-raja. Seri ini diawali dengan kepemimpinan Yosua membawa bangsa Israel memasuki Kanaan. Setelah itu, pembaca diajak untuk mengikuti perjuangan bangsa Israel di tanah Kanaan di bawah kepemimpinan para hakim dan diakhiri dengan penaklukan Israel dan Yehuda. Adapun kitab-kitab yang dirangkum …