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  • Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, Edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, Edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns
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    Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings

    A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship

    The IVP Bible Dictionary Series

    Edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns

    Christianity Today Merit Award winner
    ECPA Gold Medallion

    The Old Testament books of wisdom and poetry carry themselves differently from those of the Pentateuch, the histories or the prophets. The divine voicedoes not peal from Sinai, there are no narratives carried along by prophetic interpretation nor are oracles declaimed by a prophet. Here Scripture often ...

  • The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, By John H. Walton and Victor H. Matthews and Mark W. Chavalas The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, By John H. Walton and Victor H. Matthews and Mark W. Chavalas
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    The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

    by John H. Walton, Victor H. Matthews, and Mark W. Chavalas

    Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference

    An Expansive Old Testament Resource You Can Trust

    How can we account for the "Book of the Law" suddenly being discovered during Josiah's renovation of the temple (2 Chron 34:14)? We know from Egypt and Mesopotamia that it was common to seal important documents–including theological ...

  • Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, By Christopher J. H. Wright Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament

    Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    It's almost second nature for Christians to call God Father. Jesus taught his followers as much, although for them it was apparently a surprising practice. The worshiping community of the Old Testament used fatherly images for understanding God'scharacter and actions, but "Father" was not a common way for believers to address God.

    In Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, ...

  • Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament, By Christopher J. H. Wright Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

    Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God's interaction with the world. But our first introduction to the Holy Spirit is not the drama of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts. We first meet the HolySpirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence.

    Christopher Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit ...