If you know much about Chronicles (or the Bible in general), you know that obedience brings blessing and disobedience brings punishment. That theme is in every chapter of the 65 chapters of Chronicles. It’s repeated so much, you might be forgiven for growing tired of it. Apply that to your life and you realize that… Read More »
I’m having a grand old time reading through Chronicles “for the first time.” One of the major themes is that the people should obey the law of Moses. And another theme running throughout the book is that when the people obey, they rejoice. But I didn’t see this one coming: 2 Chronicles 24:9-10 (ESV) “And… Read More »
I’m reading a book right now about the “Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.” The main title of this work by John Walton is Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament. This post is not a recommendation, as I have only read about 100 pages so far. But there were a few statements in… Read More »
I thought I might review some of my recent reading here, not 1) to burden you with more reading than you already have, nor 2) to impress you with my reading, as I know it is impressive neither in quantity nor in erudite works, nor 3) to suggest that these are the best works to… Read More »
While the killing of yeshiva students in Jerusalem got tons of news, the much bigger story is largely ignored. Hezbollah now has 30,000 rockets in Lebanon. They only had 13,000 before the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Some of their missiles now have the range to reach Tel Aviv. I am not a science guru,… Read More »
I’m pretty sure that reading class notes is not what many readers of this blog want to do. But a few are interested and I don’t have time to come up with more edifying material at this point. Below are two sections from last week’s class in Torah and Former Prophets. I selected these sections… Read More »
If you’re one of the kinds of people that knows that you want the 2nd edition of Eugene Merrill’s Kingdom of Priests, then you might be glad to know that Amazon is giving an extra 5% off if you purchase it before it is released. That’s one dollar off. Which will buy you 20 postcards… Read More »
One of the things I was asked in my oral entrance examination was about the relevance of Genesis 38 to the book. That is a good question. Why is this strange story of Judah and Tamar included in the midst of the Joseph story? Last week this came up in class and I share with… Read More »
I’m not really sure how much I’ll be able to post about my classes as the semester goes (it’s the first week and I’m already feeling the pressure), but I’ve set aside 20 minutes tonight to mention my second class of the semester. It is a Seminar in the Torah and Former Prophets (Genesis-2 Kings,… Read More »
I’ve told you about this already (here and here), but now you can see the cover shot. Eisenbrauns is listing the second edition of Kingdom of Priests as due out in March 2008, at a price of $26. I should come up with some kind of contest with this as the prize. In fact, I could even get… Read More »