Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Meditations - Old Testament

A number of moving prayers can be found in the Old Testament and throughout Scripture. In this accessible volume, world-renowned scholar Walter Brueggemann offers his insight and wisdom on twelve prayers in the Old Testament, listening to the biblical text and explaining how these examples of ancient prayer can make prayer come alive for us today. Among the prayers explored are those by Abraham, Moses, Hannah, David, Solomon, Jonah, Jeremiah, Hezekiah, Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel, and Job. The prayers in this volume express joy and lament and show the depths of human experience and the majestic...

Few people have had a greater impact on our lives-and our concept of God-than Moses.

His unlikely start in life was guided by God, as was his mission to deliver Israel from bondage. During that mission, Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, became Israel's first and greatest prophet, and gave to them the Ten Commandments and the law that Jews still follow today.

Features include:

• How to be smart about the power of Moses's mission and relationship with God
• Moses's impact on the church and current events...

Das Gebet gehort nicht zu den Grundformen prophetischer Uberlieferung. Gleichwohl wird in den Prophetenbuchern der hebraischen Bibel an theologischen Knotenpunkten gebetet. In der vorliegenden Studie untersucht Alexa F. Wilke die Texte des corpus propheticum, in denen sich Sprecher an Gott wenden. Sie verfolgt die Frage nach der literarischen und theologischen Funktion der Gebete in ihrem Kontext und zeichnet das jeweilige Selbst- und Gottesbild der Betenden nach. Dabei berucksichtigt sie das literarische Textwachstum der behandelten Gebete und ihre entsprechende...

Steve Farrar says, -If you want to know what is going to happen in the future then you have to look back to the past.- His recommended reading list for understanding the future through the past? The biblical prophets. Through his own study of the prophets, Farrar is convinced that America is on the brink of judgment. He says, -The problem with America is not the unbelieving world. The problem with America is the people of God. Our gospel is cancelled by the way we live.- With Get In The Ark, Farrar gives Christians the tools they need to victoriously face the coming...

When he is instructed by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, he heads on the mission with the hope that God will inform him that a mistake has been made and...

When he is instructed by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, he heads on the mission with the hope that God will inform him that a mistake has been made and...

God does what it takes to get our attention. How far do you want God to go to get yours?

Don't answer too quickly. What if God moved you to another land? (As He did Abraham.) What if He called you out of retirement? (Remember Moses?) How about the voice of an angel or the bowel of a fish (Gideon and Jonah.) God does what it takes to get our attention. That's the message of this book: the relentless pursuit of God.

Immersion, inspired by a fresh translation--the Common English Bible--stands firmly on Scripture and helps readers explore the emotional,...

Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an analysis. A comparison of possible Greek and Hebrew gender taxonomies precedes the extensive delineation of the target-category, gender. The delineation includes invisible influences in the Book of Ben Sira such as the author's choices of genre and his situation as a member of a colonized group within a Hellenistic empire. When the Book of Ben Sira's genre-constrained invectives against women and male fools are excluded, the remaining expectations for...