Andreas Ersson Library

By John Piper

My spouse obtained me this e-book for my birthday in the course of my first 12 months in China (2003), and it's been picked up greater than as soon as. The distress of task and the Mercy of God doesn't rank as considered one of my favourite Piper books, yet either the writing and images are appealing. The distress of activity and the Mercy of God is an interpretive poem which Piper reads on an accompanying CD. activity is my favourite outdated testomony ebook, and an instance of knowledge literature. the following now we have a guy who has his riches destroyed, his kin taken, and his personal physique bothered but task ended up on the toes of the Almighty, in humility, worship, and compliment. all of us face pain sooner or later in our lives, yet what makes calamity endurable is that His sovereign goodness and bounty of affection sustains us. task is a prime instance of steadfast, persevering religion within the face of maximum pain.

By David T. Lamb

God has a foul popularity. Many examine God as wrathful and offended, smiting humans correct and left for no obvious cause. The outdated testomony particularly turns out from time to time to painting God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and countries, punishing enemies with severe prejudice. yet wait. the tale is extra complex than that. along troubling passages of God's punishment and judgment are photos of God's love, forgiveness, goodness and slowness to anger. How can we make experience of the seeming contradiction? Can God be depended on or now not? David Lamb unpacks the complexity of the previous testomony to discover the nature of God. He presents old and cultural history to make clear complicated passages and to carry underlying topics to the fore. with out minimizing the occasionally harsh realities of the biblical list, Lamb assembles an total portrait that provides coherence to our figuring out of God in either the previous and New Testaments.

REVIEWS

"This is a publication which not just will be learn by way of these [who are] into apologetics, yet learn by means of all
Christians in our church buildings. it really is impressive correct on the middle of 1 of the main urgent questions being
asked this day and we can't forget about this. God Behaving Badly is a really priceless publication in wrestling
with those very tricky questions in a winsome, biblical and readable manner. while you're at all
missionally residing in our tradition and conscious of the questions being requested and demanding situations to
Christianity, you then fairly can't aid yet learn this book!"
DAN KIMBALL, writer of they prefer Jesus yet no longer the Church
"Dave Lamb's ebook is a well-liked apologetic that solutions the query, Is the God of the previous Testament
angry, sexist and racist?' He prefaces his solutions with an exceptional biblical interpretation guide. The
author emphatically states, once we technique Scripture, we needs to take the context seriously.' Dave
really does that! The observe context appears to be like fifty nine instances, scattered in the course of the e-book. Dave's solid
contextual research of passages-which may well seem to say, convinced, definite, certain in solution to the question
about God's anger, his view of gender and his view of races-was a spotlight for me. Dave's
unraveling of many troublesome texts by way of contextual research is excellent. moreover, his many,
many masterful note stories make clear his contextual analyses. Dave writes with winsome humor.
He loves the outdated testomony, and you may inform that as you learn the popularly written, academically
sound, easy-to-read move of fabric in every one bankruptcy. After examining Dave's booklet, i'm certain you will
appreciate that Dave perspectives the God of the previous testomony and the God of the hot testomony as one."
BOBBY CLINTON, professor of management, college of Intercultural stories at Fuller Theological
Seminary
"It has been acknowledged that when you love whatever lengthy sufficient it finds itself to you-that love is a
hermeneutical key to unlocking the mysteries of existence itself. this can be very true for the Bible and the
God of the Bible, for God is love and will in basic terms be really recognized in love. David Lamb has enjoyed his
way into knowing Yahweh extra totally; for this reason he can lovingly support us to `see' and
experience God in new and revealing ways."
author of The Forgotten Ways
"In a lot of our African American church buildings we often recite the chorus `God is nice all of the time
and forever God is good.' God Behaving Badly is a fascinating, considerate, witty and worthwhile book
that can provide we all Christian readers a section extra self belief whilst reciting that chorus. David Lamb
gives sound information for knowing a tricky subject. Lamb bargains an apologetic for no longer only
believing in God but additionally believing that God is good-even as he's portrayed within the previous Testament.
Professor Lamb's scholarship is sound, and his humorousness had me giggling out loud. no longer many
theology books can do this! i will use this e-book in school and enthusiastically suggest it to
my congregants!"
REV. DENNIS R. EDWARDS, Ph.D., pastor, Peace Fellowship Church, Washington, D.C.
"Let's face it: God will get loads of undesirable press-it could be a little embarrassing. So even the name of Dave
Lamb's booklet gave me wish. Dave supplies sincere voice and planned consciousness to a few of the most
troublesome questions people have ever requested, and brings not just solutions yet develops our view
of God too. the main exciting factor approximately this ebook is that i will be able to suggest it to either the devoted and
the skittish, to associates and scholars and those that take into consideration God and are not yes what to think."
ALISON SIEWERT, New Ministry Developer, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and editor, Worship
Team Handbook
"I would require my students to learn this ebook. I grew to become delicate to the `God questions' in the
Bible simply because scholars requested me questions that got here instantly from hearts. This ebook is
written for college kids and speaks with wit and knowledge to the questions they have."
SCOT McKNIGHT, Karl A. Olsson Professor in non secular experiences, North Park University
"David Lamb faces as much as all of the questions that the majority usually hassle humans concerning the God of the Old
Testament. Written in a winsome and fascinating means, this e-book goes to assist many that wonder whether the
God of the previous testomony is certainly the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
JOHN GOLDINGAY, David Allan Hubbard Professor of previous testomony, Fuller Theological
Seminary

There's little question that during fresh years the character of the Genesis narrative has sparked a lot debate between Christians. This Counterpoints quantity introduces 3 primary interpretive genres and their implications for biblical figuring out. every one contributor identifies their place at the style of Genesis 1-11, addressing why it really is applicable to the textual content, and contributes examples of its software to a number of passages.

The individuals and perspectives contain:

• James ok. Hoffmeier: Theological History
• Gordon J. Wenham: Proto-History
• Kenton L. Sparks: old Historiography

General editor and outdated testomony student Charles Halton explains the significance of style and gives ancient perception within the creation and valuable summaries of every place within the end. within the reader-friendly Counterpoints structure, this publication is helping readers to mirror at the strengths and weaknesses of every view and draw trained conclusions during this much-debated subject.

By Larry Paul Jones

By James H Waltner

Believers Church Bible remark The impact of Psalms is huge, either when it comes to the worship of God's humans and within the non secular adventure of numerous members. James H. Waltner goals to aid readers locate their approach via Psalms, come upon God, and be led into obedience and compliment.

By Daniel M. O'Hare

This paintings examines the Vorlage of LXX Ezekiel forty forty eight, arguing that it represents a remodeling of those chapters in gentle of the publication as a complete. the writer applies Skopostheorie, a latest useful thought of translation, to appreciate the targets of translation in LXX Ezekiel forty forty eight, which come with highlighting the space and therefore authority of the resource textual content, suggesting strategies to difficulties posed by way of the textual content, and updating components of the imaginative and prescient in mild of Hellenistic tradition. The aim of the interpretation was once either to maintain the authority and to intensify the persuasive strength of those chapters for Hellenistic readers of LXX Ezekiel.

By Teresa J. Hornsby, Ken Stone

The essays in Bible hassle all interact queer theories for reasons of biblical interpretation, an extraordinary attempt to this point inside of biblical scholarship. The identify word Bible difficulty performs on Judith Butler s Gender difficulty, gesturing towards a first-rate textual content for modern queer idea. The essays think of, between others, the Lazarus tale, the Ethiopian eunuch, gender difficulty in Judges four and five, the track of Songs, and an unorthodox coupling of the books of Samuel and the movie Paris Is Burning. This quantity issues not just the limits among biblical scholarship and queer idea but additionally the bounds among diverse frameworks at present utilized in the research of biblical literature, together with sexuality, gender, race, category, historical past, and literature. The participants are Ellen T. Armour, Michael Joseph Brown, Sean D. Burke, Heidi Epstein, Deryn visitor, Jione Havea, Teresa J. Hornsby, Lynn R. Huber, S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Joseph A. Marchal, Jeremy Punt, Erin Runions, Ken Stone, Gillian Townsley, Jay Twomey, and Manuel Villalobos.

By Bede

The Venerable Bede’s In Ezram et Neemiam is the 1st and in simple terms entire statement written at the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah within the patristic or later medieval period. this is often the 1st English translation of Bede’s textual content, and in it he emerges as a bold innovator, an writer who used the tales of Ezra and Nehemiah to discover the pastoral and secular crises of his personal day.  Translator Scott DeGregorio makes Bede's paintings either available to the layperson and illuminating for the expert. This variation comprises annotations facing textual, historic, and non secular matters; a entire creation that areas the textual content within the backdrop of Bede's eighth-century Northumbrian group; appendices; and a bibliography.

By Francesca Stavrakopoulou

By Frank M. Yamada

In Configurations of Rape within the Hebrew Bible, Frank M. Yamada explores the compelling similarity between 3 rape narratives present in the Hebrew Scriptures. those 3 tales - the rape of Dinah (Genesis 34), the rape of an unnamed concubine (Judges 19), and the rape of Tamar, daughter of David (2 Samuel thirteen) - go through a similar plot development: an preliminary sexual violation of a girl results in escalating violence between males, leading to a few kind of social fragmentation. during this interesting research, Yamada attracts from the disciplines of literary and narrative feedback, feminist biblical interpretation, and cultural anthropology to argue for a relatives resemblance between those 3 tales approximately rape.