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  • 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Edited by Marco Conti
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    1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

    Volume 5

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Marco Conti
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    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 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. It will be immediately clear to readers of this volume that they gave much more attention to 1-2 Kings than to others; whether this was ...

  • 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Edited by Marco Conti
    Paperback

    1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

    Volume 5

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Marco Conti
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    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 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. It will be immediately clear to readers of this volume that they gave much more attention to 1-2 Kings than to others; whether this was ...

  • The Twelve Prophets: Volume 14, Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
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    The Twelve Prophets

    Volume 14

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    "And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27).

    The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative ...

  • The Twelve Prophets, Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
    Paperback

    The Twelve Prophets

    Volume 14

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    "And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27).

    The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative ...

  • Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Titus, 1-2 Timothy and 1-3 John, By Ben Witherington III
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    Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians

    A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Titus, 1-2 Timothy and 1-3 John

    Letters and Homilies Series

    by Ben Witherington III

    The study of the so-called General or Catholic Epistles has been hampered, argues Ben Witherington, by the failure to properly discern their genre. Several of these "letters" are much better understood as homilies--although, like the rest of the New Testament, they are situation specific. In this first of three volumes, Witherington extends his innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament ...