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Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... King and Messiah in Ezekiel,” in King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East [ed. John Day; JSOTSup 270; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998], p. 329). I will make a horn grow. Joyce writes, “29:21 is one of the clearest ‘messianic ... living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today. (Isa. 38:18–19) Death is a power that reaches back into life, to rob the living of joy and fulfillment, from which the righteous person prays to be delivered (Pss. 6:4–5; 30:1–3, 8–10). Death ...

2. Hearts

2 Corinthians 6:14--7:1

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... were not on the best terms, but Cimon exhorted the Athenians “not to allow Hellas to be crippled, nor their city to be robbed of its yoke-fellow [i.e., Sparta].” Even if a metaphorical usage of the verb heterozyge? is uncommon, the idea of being ... a Metaphor in St. Paul,” in Templum Amicitiae: Essays on the Second Temple Presented to Ernst Bammel (ed. William Horbury; JSNTSup 48; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991), pp. 391–409; P. W. Comfort, “Temple,” DPL, pp. 923–25. See further on 2 Cor. 5:1. 6:16d ...

3. The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... g., Exod. 23:15; Lev. 23:4). These heavenly bodies were the main gods of various Semitic peoples, and so this description robs them of any divinity. For this reason the author used generic terms (“greater light,” “lesser light”) rather than names in ... Humanity As the Image of God,” in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays, 1967–1998, vol. 2 (JSOTSup 293; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 447–97; G. Jónsson, The Image of God: Genesis 1:26–28 in a Century of Old ...

4. The Fall of Man

Genesis 3:1-24

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... in A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden [ed. P. Morris and D. Sawyer; JSOTSup 136; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992], p. 43). A second proposal is that if “good and evil” is an example of coupling opposite ... , is infertile, and is subject to a variety of plagues (Lev. 26:20). Thorns and thistles would grow so thickly that they would rob the soil of moisture and nutrients and choke out the food-bearing plants. Consequently, in working the ground to produce food for life, ...

5. Boasting

2 Corinthians 11:1-15, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... when he was very needy in Corinth he was so intent on not being a burden to the Corinthians that he chose to “rob” a church that was in abject poverty rather than risk offending the Corinthians. All of this was ultimately for the Corinthians’ own ... of Selected Passages,” in The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation [ed. James H. Charlesworth and Craig A. Evans; JSPSup 14; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993], pp. 246–68). 12:2 Of course, Jesus’ self-designation as the “Son of Man” is a huge ...

6. Boasting

2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 1:1-11, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

7. Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... fiber of the community by insisting that the division between rich and poor be diminished. He forbade the land-grabbing, freedom-robbing practices of the wealthy that put the poor into slavery and the community into disarray. In rebuilding the city walls, ... the separate Ezra and Nehemiah books? (For a thorough discussion of this puzzle, see H.G.M. Williamson, Ezra and Nehemiah [Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1987].) The portion of chapter 8 read for this week depicts a community profoundly moved by both its ...

8. Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet