The Acts of the Apostles (Harper's New Testament Commentaries)
by C S Williams
Ezekiel was a prophet during the dark days of the exile of his people in Babylon, both before and after the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Speaking to a people who had lost everything, Ezekiel nevertheless had the difficult task of making Judah aware of their rebellion against God - and of its consequences. Through all the unusual and confusing turns of Ezekiel's account, John L. Mackay provides a scholarly treatment of the Old Testament prophet, without losing a sense of reverence and de...
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The Book of First Samuel - Samuel the Prophet Ruled Israel
by Kenneth B Jd Alexander
I Kings with an Introduction to Historical Literature (Forms of Old Testament Literature, v. 9)
by Burke O. Long
Wesley Bible Lesson Commentary, Volume 7 (Wesley Bible Lesson Commentary, #7)
Ezra-Nehemiah has been neglected in biblical studies, but it is important as one of the few windows into the Persian period of Israel's history, the setting for so much of the final shape of the Hebrew Bible. To know this period is to know what influenced these redactors. In Ezra and Nehemiah Gordon Davies provides that knowledge using rhetorical criticism, a methodology that reveals the full range and progress of the book's ideas without hiding its rough seams and untidy edges. The purpose of...