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  • Revelation, Edited by William C. Weinrich
    hardcover

    Revelation

    Volume 12

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by William C. Weinrich
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Revelation to John—with its vivid images and portraits of conflict leading up to the formation of a new heaven and a new earth—was widely read, even as it was variously interpreted in the early church. Approaches to its interpretation ranged from the millenarian approach of Victorinus of Petovium to the more symbolic interpretation of Tyconius, who read Revelation in the sense ...

  • Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, By Soong-Chan Rah
    paperback

    Prophetic Lament

    A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

    by Soong-Chan Rah
    Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil

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    When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was ...

  • Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel, Edited by John R. Franke
    paperback

    Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel

    Volume 4

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by John R Franke
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The history of the entry into the Promised Land followed by the period of the Judges and early monarchy may not appear to readers today as a source for expounding the Christian faith. But the church fathers readily found parallels, or types, in the narrative that illumined the New Testament. An obvious link was the similarity in name between Joshua, Moses' successor, and Jesus—indeed, ...

  • Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel, Edited by John R. Franke
    hardcover

    Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel

    Volume 4

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by John R Franke
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The history of the entry into the Promised Land followed by the period of the Judges and early monarchy may not appear to readers today as a source for expounding the Christian faith. But the church fathers readily found parallels, or types, in the narrative that illumined the New Testament. An obvious link was the similarity in name between Joshua, Moses' successor, and Jesus—indeed, ...

  • Genesis 12-50, Edited by Mark Sheridan
    hardcover

    Genesis 12-50

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Mark Sheridan
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Genesis 12–50 recounts the history of the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. From their mentors Paul, Peter, Stephen, and the author of the letter to the Hebrews, the early fathers learned to draw out the spiritual significance of the patriarchal narrative for Christian believers. The Alexandrian school especially followed Paul's allegorical use of the story of Sarah ...

  • Genesis 12-50, Edited by Mark Sheridan
    paperback

    Genesis 12-50

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Mark Sheridan
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Genesis 12–50 recounts the history of the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. From their mentors Paul, Peter, Stephen, and the author of the letter to the Hebrews, the early fathers learned to draw out the spiritual significance of the patriarchal narrative for Christian believers. The Alexandrian school especially followed Paul's allegorical use of the story of Sarah ...

  • Job, Edited by Manlio Simonetti and Marco Conti
    hardcover

    Job

    Volume 6

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Manlio Simonetti and Marco Conti
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Such honest, forthright wrestling with the problem of evil and the silence of God has intrigued a wide gamut of readers both religious and nonreligious.

    Surprisingly, the earliest church fathers showed little interest in the book of Job. Not until Origen in the early third century is ...