In the Lord I Take Refuge invites readers to experience the Psalms in a new and refreshing way, with devotional content written by Dane Ortlund. This gift edition features an elegant and long-lasting TruTone cover.

THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include: * commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION; * the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary; * sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages; * interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole; * readable and applicable exposition.

Academy of Parish Clergy 2022 Top Five Reference Book There are few biblical texts more familiar to Christians than Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want . . ." It is one of the Bible's most popular passages, retaining a special place in ministry and giving hope to the burdened. Internationally recognized Old Testament scholar Richard Briggs helps readers understand the power and vision of Psalm 23. He offers a close word-by-word and phrase-by-phrase reading of this classic and beloved text, showing how it can speak afresh to the life of the church today. Briggs explores the reception of Psalm 23 down through the ages, covers background issues, and examines the ways the psalm addresses practical issues such as stress, death, enemies, and hope. The book helps reconnect the Christian church to the Old Testament, making it perfect for sermon preparation and small group study. The Touchstone Texts series addresses key Bible passages, making high-quality biblical scholarship accessible for the church. The series editor is Stephen B. Chapman, Duke Divinity School.

Die Prophetie im alten Israel ist eine einzigartige Erscheinung von welt- historischer Bedeutung. Tief verwurzelt in den geschichtlichen Zusammen- hangen der ersten Halfte des ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausends hat sie den drei groBen Weltreligionen Judentum, Christentum und Islam ihr Erbe hin- terlassen, unter ihnen weitreichende Wirkungen ausge16st und Krafte der Hoffnung und Zuversicht, der unbedingten GewiBheit im Vertrauen auf gottliche Zusagen entbunden. Ihre Geltung bis auf den heutigen Tag lebt im religiosen BewuBtsein fort und vermag Grundpositionen religioser, aber zuweilen auch von ihnen abgeleiteter religionsphilosophischer Denksysteme 1 und in ihnen wirksamer Einzelelemente zu stutzen und zu bestatigen - DaB der Prophet, unter welchen Voraussetzungen auch immer, das Kommende mit GewiBheit voraussage, ist selbst dem popularen AllgemeinbewuBtsein eine bekannte und gelaufige Vorstellung. Damit mag es zusammenhangen, daB Prophetie" in erster Linie dem Ressort der Religionswissenschaft und Theologie zugesprochen wird. Histo- rische Wissenschaften und Darstellungen der Geistesgeschichte vermerken das Phanomen am Rande. Es ist fur sie kein Forschungsobjekt von eigen- standiger Bedeutung. So kam es, daB die Masse der wissenschaftlichen Litera- tur zu diesem Thema aus theologischer Feder stammt und sich in der Regel aum in der theologischen Debatte erschopft, ohne den Zusammenhang von t Hingewiesen sei auf die Vorlesungsreihe von W. Zimmerli, Der Mensch und seine Hoff- nung im Alten Testament, Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe 272 S, 1968, wo auch die Ausein- andersetzung mit dem nPrinzip Hoffnung" bei Ernst Bloch gefiihrt wird.

This volume presents the first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349), a hermit and mystic whose works were widely read in England and on the European continent into the early modern period. Rolle's explication of the Old Testament Book of Lamentations gives us a glimpse of how the biblical commentary tradition informed what would become his signature mystical, doctrinal, and reformist preoccupations throughout his career. Rolle's English and explicitly mystical writings have been widely accessible for decades. Recent attention has turned again to his Latin commentaries, many of which have never been critically edited or thoroughly studied. This attention promises to give us a fuller sense of Rolle's intellectual, devotional, and reformist development, and of the interplay between his Latin and English writings. Richard Rolle: On Lamentations places Rolle's early commentary within a tradition of explication of the Lamentations of Jeremiah and in the context of his own career. The edition collates all known witnesses to the text, from Dublin, Oxford, Prague, and Cologne. A source apparatus as well as textual and explanatory notes accompany the edition.