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The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply
biblical text effectively in today's context The books of Judges
and Ruth have relevance for our lives today. Judges, because it
reveals a God who employs very human deliverers but refuses to
gloss over their sins and their consequences. And Ruth, because it
demonstrates the far-reaching impact of a righteous character. K.
Lawson Younger Jr. shares literary perspectives on the books of
Judges and Ruth that reveal ageless truths for our contemporary
lives. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's
context, each passage is treated in three sections: Original
Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original
meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and
cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of
the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is
timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary
Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to
those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the
biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they
may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them
think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning
commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers,
and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas,
and insights, they need to communicate God's Word with the same
powerful impact it had when it was first written.
Works on Old Testament historiography, the 'Conquest', and the
origins of ancient Israel have burgeoned in recent days. But while
others have been issuing new reconstructions this novel work
presents a close reading of the biblical text. The focus is on the
literary techniques that ancient writers employed in narrating
stories of conquest, and the aim is to pinpoint their communicative
intentions in their own contexts. This reading is enhanced by
engagement with the important discipline of the philosophy of
history. Ancient Conquest accounts, replete with extensive
quotations from Assyrian, Hittite and Egyptian conquest accounts,
is a learned and methodologically sensitive study of a wide range
of ancient Near Eastern texts as well as of Joshua 9-12.
James Hoffmeier is a giant in the field of Egyptology. Among his
many publications are two volumes of archaeological reports from
Tell el-Borg, where he led excavations from 1999 to 2008. He is
also well known for his interest in how ancient Egypt and the
biblical world intersected, having edited and written several books
on the subject, including the recent “Did I Not Bring Israel Out
of Egypt?” Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological
Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives, published by Eisenbrauns.
Dedicated to Hoffmeier, this volume features essays written by more
than thirty of his colleagues, former students, and friends. The
contributions cover the second and first millennia BCE—from the
Egyptian Old Kingdom through the Persian period—as well as New
Testament times. The subjects covered include archaeology, biblical
studies, Egyptology, and, of course, how these fields intersect
with one another. Among the many contributors are Aaron A. Burke,
Deirdre Fulton, Rick Hess, Edmund Meltzer, Alan Millard, Steven
Ortiz, Donald B. Redford, Gary A. Rendsburg, and Nili Shupak. This
volume will be of interest to scholars and students who, following
in the footsteps of Hoffmeier, are interested in how the biblical
world interacted with ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East.
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