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  • Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem, Edited by Heath A. Thomas and Jeremy A. Evans and Paul Copan
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    Holy War in the Bible

    Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem

    Edited by Heath A. Thomas, Jeremy A. Evans, and Paul Copan

    The challenge of a seemingly genocidal God who commands ruthless warfare has bewildered Bible readers for generations. The theme of divine war is not limited to the Old Testament historical books, however. It is also prevalent in the prophets andwisdom literature as well. Still it doesn?t stop. The New Testament book of Revelation, too, is full of such imagery. Our questions multiply.

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  • God, Freedom and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture, By Ron Highfield
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    God, Freedom and Human Dignity

    Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture

    by Ron Highfield

    Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western thought. Such suspicion remains with us todayin our so-called secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference. ...

  • Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's
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    Misquoting Truth

    A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"

    by Timothy Paul Jones

    "What good does it do to say that the words [of the Bible] are inspired by God if most people have absolutely no access to these words, but only to more or less clumsy renderings of these words into a language? . . . How does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired? . . . We have only error-ridden copies, and ...

  • My Soul Waits: Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms, By Marva J. Dawn
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    My Soul Waits

    Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms

    by Marva J. Dawn

    "An overwhelming number of us are lonely," writes Marva Dawn. "Sometimes we are lonely for a specific reason: our spouse has recently died or left us; our children have just gone from home or have been tragically killed; we are fighting a particular battle against illness or suffering the ravages of chemotherapy; we are new in the neighborhood; our values are different from those of our work colleagues; ...

  • 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann
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    1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles

    Old Testament Volume 5

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann

    "Then David said to the Philistine, 'You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts.'" (1 Samuel 17:45) Reflecting upon David's victory over Goliath, Reformation translator, theologian and commentator William Tyndale compared it to Christ's victory over sin and death: "When David had killed Goliath the giant, glad tidings came ...

  • Isaiah 1–39, Edited by Jeff Fisher
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    Isaiah 1–39

    Old Testament Volume 10A

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Jeffrey Fisher

    "And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?'

    Then I said, 'Here I am! Send me.'"

    In his interpretation of Isaiah's vision of God and subsequent sending, the Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons perceived a pattern for all prophets, apostles, ministers, and preachers who are called and then sent out to spread the ...

  • Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary, By Paul D. Wegner
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    Isaiah

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by Paul D. Wegner
    Series edited by David G. Firth
    Consulting Editor Tremper Longman III

    No other prophetic book rivals Isaiah's clear message, powerful imagery, and confident hope in God's future deliverance. The prophet's vision of God's glory and holiness in chapter 6 permeates the whole book, and he never tires ofcorrecting misplaced faith in power or false gods.

    In this thorough and accessible Tyndale commentary, Paul Wegner explores the background, structure, ...

  • 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
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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 ...

  • John 11-21: Volume 4B, Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
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    John 11-21

    Volume 4B

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Gospel of John was beloved by the early church, much as it is today, for its spiritual insight and clear declaration of Jesus' divinity. Clement of Alexandria indeed declared it the "spiritual Gospel." Early disputers with heretics such as Cerinthus and the Ebionites drew upon the Gospel of John to refute their heretical notions and uphold the full deity of Christ. This Gospel more than any ...