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  • How to Read Job, By John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III
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    How to Read Job

    How to Read Series

    by John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III

    Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference

    We often turn to the book of Job when we encounter suffering. We look for an explanation for the questions "Why me?" or "Why her?" But what if it turns out that although Job does suffer, the book is not really about his suffering?

    If ever a book needed a "How to Read" instruction manual, it is the book of Job. ...

  • The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God, By G. K. Beale
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    The Temple and the Church's Mission

    A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by G. K. Beale
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem. . . . And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man." (Revelation 21:1-3, ESV).In this comprehensive study, a New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, G. K. Beale argues that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time ...

  • Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, Edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns
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    Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings

    A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship

    The IVP Bible Dictionary Series

    Edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns

    Christianity Today Merit Award winner
    ECPA Gold Medallion

    The Old Testament books of wisdom and poetry carry themselves differently from those of the Pentateuch, the histories or the prophets. The divine voicedoes not peal from Sinai, there are no narratives carried along by prophetic interpretation nor are oracles declaimed by a prophet. Here Scripture often ...

  • The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites, By John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
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    The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest

    Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton

    Biblical Foundations Award Winner

    Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age, this is the one we want to avoid in mixed company.

    But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely inspired genocide? Did Israel slaughter Canaanites at God's ...

  • Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes: Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World, By E. Randolph Richards and Richard James
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    Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes

    Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World

    by E. Randolph Richards and Richard James

    The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it's easy to misinterpret important elements—or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being said. So to read Scripture well we benefit when we uncover the unspoken social structures and values of its world. We need to recalibrate ...

  • The IVP Atlas of Bible History, By Paul Lawrence
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    The IVP Atlas of Bible History

    by Paul Lawrence
    Consulting Editor A. R. Millard, John H. Walton, and Heinrich Von Siebenthal

    Open Your Understanding of the World of Scripture

    The story of the Bible is inextricably linked to the land. To understand biblical history, we need to understand how the people, events, and geography interacted to form thatancient world.

    Spanning three thousand years of biblical history, The IVP Atlas of Bible History reveals the many fascinating ways that ...