De Gruyter, 2023. — 166 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 552). The final text of the Book of Micah provokes a series of questions: - Can the Book be read as a coherent composition or is it the result of a complex redaction history? - Was Micah a prophet of doom whose literary heritage was later softened by the inclusion of oracles of...
Baker Book House, 1968. — 75 p. — (Shield Bible study outlines)
This series consists of inexpensive paper bound manuals which serve as guides for the study of the Bible for seminaries, religious departments of colleges and universities, Bible schools and colleges, pastors, Sunday School teachers, and for group study of the Bible in the local church. They are by respected...
Baker Book House, 1968. — 75 p. — (Shield Bible study outlines) This series consists of inexpensive paper bound manuals which serve as guides for the study of the Bible for seminaries, religious departments of colleges and universities, Bible schools and colleges, pastors, Sunday School teachers, and for group study of the Bible in the local church. They are by respected students...
Eerdmans — 2020 — 640 p. — ISBN-10 0802825389, ISBN-13 978-0802825384 — (The new international commentary of Old Testament). In this commentary on the book of Amos, Daniel Carroll combines a detailed reading of the Hebrew text with attention to its historical background and current relevance. What makes this volume unique is its special attention to Amos’s literary features and...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1987. — 89 p. — (Old Testament Guides) In the first half of this Guide the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah (chs. 1-8) is placed within its historical setting of Persian rule and within the history of prophetism. The latter part of the book explores how the two parts of the book of Zechariah are related, and investigates problems in Zechariah 9-14, with...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1987. — 89 p. — (Old Testament Guides) In the first half of this Guide the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah (chs. 1-8) is placed within its historical setting of Persian rule and within the history of prophetism. The latter part of the book explores how the two parts of the book of Zechariah are related, and investigates problems in Zechariah 9-14, with...
Brill, 2019. — xx, 344 p. — (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 180). The Greek translation of the Minor Prophets is interesting from several points of view. The literary character of the texts calls for a re-examination of the stylistic and poetic strategies employed by the translator. Recent developments in the study of textual history justify a fresh study of certain...
Multnomah Press, 1979. — 229 p. If any portion of the Old Testament has come in for undeservedly scant attention, it has been the minor prophets. Their significance has been obscured by our neglect. Among the major messages of these prophets, that of Zechariah shines forth with special prominence. Zechariah's prophecy is given primarily to console and comfort weary Israel. The...
Multnomah Press, 1979. — 229 p. If any portion of the Old Testament has come in for undeservedly scant attention, it has been the minor prophets. Their significance has been obscured by our neglect. Among the major messages of these prophets, that of Zechariah shines forth with special prominence. Zechariah's prophecy is given primarily to console and comfort weary Israel. The...
Brill, 2020. — xviii, 381 pp. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, Volume: 72). Habakkuk is unique amongst the prophetic corpus for its interchange between YHWH and the prophet. Many open research questions exist regarding the identities of the antagonists throughout and the relationships amongst the different sections of the book. In A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk, David J....
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. — (International Theological Commentary) In this International Theological Commentary on the book of Micah, Mark S. Gignilliat begins by reflecting upon the nature of such commentary in relation to biblical interpretation, before situating Micah within current critical engagement with the book of the Twelve and focusing specifically on...
2013. — 214 p. — (Septuagint Commentary Series). Rather than studying the LXX of Hosea mainly as a text-critical resource for the Hebrew or as a help for interpreting the Hebrew, this commentary, as part of the Septuagint Commentary Series, primarily examines the Greek text of Hosea as an artifact in its own right to seek to determine how it would have been understood by early...
Brill, 2015. — x, 246 p. — (Septuagint Commentary Series). In this commentary W. Edward Glenny provides a careful analysis of the Greek text and literary features of Micah based on its witness in the fourth century codex Vaticanus. The commentary begins with an introduction to Micah in Vaticanus, and it contains an uncorrected copy of Micah from Vaticanus with textual notes and...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1988. — 151 p. — (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 69)
A much neglected prophecy, Zephaniah proves to be an excellent subject for literary-critical enquiry. Such an approach yields new meaning for Zephaniah as it is doing for other biblical texts. After an introductory chapter devoted to the history of Zephaniah interpretation, House...
IVP, 1989. — 235 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries)
A wanton and adulterous woman repeatedly spurns the love of her youth. Her betrayed and grieving husband offers forgiveness and seeks to restore the intimacy of their first love. Bold imagery indeed for telling the story of God and his people. Bolder still when God calls a prophet to enflesh this divine suffering and...
IVP, 1989. — 235 p. — (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) A wanton and adulterous woman repeatedly spurns the love of her youth. Her betrayed and grieving husband offers forgiveness and seeks to restore the intimacy of their first love. Bold imagery indeed for telling the story of God and his people. Bolder still when God calls a prophet to enflesh this divine suffering and...
Eerdmans — 2017 — 423 p. — ISBN-10 0802826253, ISBN-13 978-0802826251 — (The new international commentary of Old Testament). In this commentary on Haggai and Malachi, Mignon Jacobs offers clear and insightful interpretation of the text while highlighting themes that are especially relevant to contemporary concerns, such as honoring or dishonoring God, the responsibilities of...
Kohlhammer, 2021. — 299 p. — (Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (IEKAT)). Der Kommentar legt das Amos-Buch so aus, wie es in der Hebräischen Bibel überliefert ist: als Sammlung der Worte eines Propheten, der im 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. auftritt, dem Königreich Israel wegen der sozialen und kultischen Vergehen seiner Oberschicht das Ende ansagt, am Schluss...
Westminster John Knox Press, 1993. — 121 p. — (The Old Testament Library) Few parts of the Bible have captured the imagination of individuals in the way that the book of Jonah has. James Limburg examines this well-known book, keeping several questions in mind: How did the story originate? What is its place in the Bible? How did the New Testament understand the story? How has the...
Westminster John Knox Press, 1993. — 121 p. — (The Old Testament Library)
Few parts of the Bible have captured the imagination of individuals in the way that the book of Jonah has. James Limburg examines this well-known book, keeping several questions in mind: How did the story originate? What is its place in the Bible? How did the New Testament understand the story? How has...
Westminster John Knox Press, 1976. — 182 p. — (Old Testament Library) Considered one of the Minor Prophets, the book of Micah contains the famous quote "what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8). However, many of us do not know the circumstances that led the prophet to these famous words. This...
Cambridge University Press, 1971. — 198 p. — (Cambridge Bible Commentary) The plan of this volume of commentary on the New English Bible text of three Old Testament books follows the pattern established by the New Testament series of Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the New English Bible. The main divisions of the text are those provided by the New English Bible itself. The text is...
Garden City N.Y : Doubleday, 1987. — xcv, 478 p. — (Anchor Bible Commentary 25B). Haggai and Zechariah 1–8, Volume 25B in the acclaimed Anchor Bible part of the Scripture known as the Minor Prophets, were written during a critical period in Israel’s history, the momentous return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. Following the conquest of Babylon by the Persian Empire, the...
Leuven; Paris; Bristol: Peeters, 2022). — 305 p. — (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis ; 294). This is a verse-by-verse, text-critical study of two important books out of the Minor Prophets. An English translation by the author is provided alongside its Hebrew original as found in Biblia Hebreaica. The Septuagint text studied is the edition prepared by Ziegler. The main purpose of...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987. — 120 p. — (International Theological Commentary) The book of Joel is one of the Old Testament prophetic books, but it also has a clear and close association with lament literature. Graham Ogden takes seriously the book's lament setting, exegeting it entirely form within that framework. In his commentary on the book of Malachi, Richard...
Kohlhammer, 2012. — 166 p. — (International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament). It will be argued that Zechariah 9-14 consists of four collections of traditional eschatological hope. Of the collections, the first three included hopes vital during the first half of the Persian period. The fourth collection (chapter 14) seems to have arisen later than the other three...
Eerdmans — 2021 — 743 p. — ISBN-10 0802826261, ISBN-13 978-0802826268 — (The new international commentary of Old Testament). In this commentary, Thomas Renz reads Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah as three carefully crafted writings of enduring relevance, each of which makes a vital contribution to the biblical canon. Discussing the historical settings, Renz takes up both...
Kohlhammer, 2019. — 170 p. — (Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (IEKAT)). Im Fokus des Kommentars steht der Bezug von Maleachi als letzte Schrift des Zwölfprophetenbuchs auf die vorhergehenden Prophetenschriften; hinzu kommt die Entstehung des Dodekapropheton als Ganzes und von Maleachi im Besonderen. Während sich die Zusätze zur ältesten literarischen...
Brill, 2020. — xx, 632 p. — (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 184). In the last two decades, research on the Book of the Twelve has shown that this corpus is not just a collection of twelve prophetic books. It is rather a coherent work with a common history of formation and, based upon this, with an overall message and intention. The individual books of the Book of the...
SBL Press, 2016. — 269 p. This book discusses the depictions of the cult and its personnel in the twelve prophetic books commonly referred to as "The Book of the Twelve" or "The Minor Prophets." The articles in the volume explore the following questions: How did these prophetic writers envision the priests and the Levites? What did they think about the ritual aspects of ancient...
Kohlhammer, 2020. — 270 p. — (Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (IEKAT)). Wesentliche Teile der Michaschrift sind wahrscheinlich im Kontext eines Mehr- oder Zwölfprophetenbuches entstanden und können deshalb nur in diesem Zusammenhang angemessen verstanden und interpretiert werden. So wird hier ein Stück alttestamentlicher Theologiegeschichte sichtbar,...
М.: ББИ, 2016. – x + 141 с. — (Современная библеистика). Во второй половине VIII века до н.э. Израиль оказался на краю гибели, на краю полной политической катастрофы. История пророка Осии, которому Господь повелел жениться на проститутке, дает этому событию неожиданное, повергающее благочестивого читателя в изумление и недоумение объяснение. До сих пор остается спорным, что...
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