From its inception the church has always had a Bible―the Jewish Scriptures. But Christians have not read these Scriptures in the same way the Jews did. They have read them in the light of what Go…
From its inception the church has always had a Bible―the Jewish Scriptures. But Christians have not read these Scriptures in the same way the Jews did. They have read them in the light of what Go…
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 K…
The book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Such honest, forthright wrestling with evil and the silence of God has intrigued a wide gamut of readers bo…
As in previous volumes within the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, the range of comment contained in Genesis 1--11 spans from the first century to the eighth, from East to West, and from …
The books of Ezekiel and Daniel are rich in imagery taken up afresh in the New Testament. Echoes of Ezekiel--with its words of doom and promises of hope, the vision of a new temple and its scroll-e…