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The Book of Revelation can be read in various ways. Where interpretation opts not to venture beyond Revelation or approach the book as a forecast of end-time events, it typically favours either going behind the text, in search of a socio-historical context of origin to which it might refer, or else standing in front of the text and investigating the books reception history, or its present relevance and impact. Comparatively little interpretative work has been undertaken inside the text, exploring the mechanics of how Revelation works, still less how its complex parts might fit together into a meaningful whole. Gordon Campbell considers Revelation to be a coherent narrative composition that draws its hearer or reader into its text-world. In Reading Revelation: A Thematic Approach, Campbell gives an innovative account of Revelations sophisticated thematic content. Mindful of Revelations narrative verve, or its architecture en mouvement (as Jacques Ellul once put it), Campbell plots a series of thematic trajectories through the book. On this reading, parody and parallelism fundamentally shape the whole narrative. As a first-ever integrated account of Revelations macro-themes, Reading Revelation makes an important contribution to Revelation scholarship. In its light, the book may justifiably be seen as the crowning achievement of the Scriptures.

El gran predicador y expositor bíblico C. H. Spurgeon dedicó buena parte de su vida a completar su "opus magna". Un gran comentario al libro de lo salmos que tituló "El Tesoro de David". Spurgeon expone versiculo a versiculo cada salmo y selecciona los mejores comentarios -sobre cada uno de ellos- por los Padres de la Iglesia, los Reformadores, los autores Puritanos, asi como los comentaristas contemporaneos de su epoca. La obra al completo estara disponible en español en tres grandes tomos: el primero, lo formara los 61 salmos mas conocidos e importantes; el segundo y tercero abarcara el resto de salmos, completando asi la obra. El Tesoro de David, recopila lo mejor que se ha dicho y escrito sobre cada Salmo desde el Siglo II hasta finales del Siglo XIX.

The Old Testament book of 1 Samuel records the story of three important leaders in Israels history: Samuel, Saul, and David. The lives of these flawed men showcase Gods gracious response to ancient Israels leadership crisis, offering valuable lessons related to why leaders fail, the impact this failure can have on Gods people, and what it means to model godly leadershipeven today.In this accessible commentary, John Woodhouse shows how 1 Samuel reveals the importance of true leadership and the character of the godly leader. More significantly, this volume points forward to Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of Gods promises to his people and the only perfect leader the world has ever known.Those who preach and teach Gods Word will find this an invaluable resource as they seek to help others embrace 1 Samuels timely message.Part of the Preaching the Word series.

The prophet Jeremiah is a supreme example of how believers can live well in a society that has turned against God. While the book of Jeremiah chronicles the last, desperate days of Jerusalem before it is conquered by an invading army, Lamentations expresses the cries of Jeremiahs heart for the fallen city. Together, the two books reflect on the meaning of human suffering and illustrate the eternal principle that a man will reap what he sows. In this commentary, Philip Graham Ryken helps pastors, church leaders, and Bible teachers understand and teach these spiritually relevant books, inspiring readers to respond to Gods personal call to live for him in these troubled times.Part of the Preaching the Word series.

Lukes carefully researched and orderly account of the life of Christ is one of the finest pieces of historical writing from the ancient world. More importantly, it boldly proclaims the story and significance of Jesus, emphasizing his "gospel" as good news for the whole world.In this illuminating commentary, respected pastor R. Kent Hughes explores Lukes historical claims about the life of Christ and his overarching message, offering helpful insights into the biblical text and pastoral reflections on how it applies to everyday life.Written to help preachers and Bible teachers communicate Gods Word more effectively, this commentary explores how the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus constitute the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy and guarantee salvation to all who believe on his name.Part of the Preaching the Word series.

Jesus is King. Standing as a central theme of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesuss kingly authority has profound implications for how we live in the world and interact with those around us. In this reader-friendly commentary, seasoned pastor Doug ODonnell leads us through the first book of the New Testament, highlighting key themes and offering helpful illustrations for preaching. Drawing on years of pastoral experience, ODonnell shows how Matthews various emphasesincluding Jesuss messianic titles, fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, teaching on the kingdom of heaven, and present and future role as judgeall relate to Christs kingship. Designed to help pastors faithfully preach Gods Word, this commentary ultimately highlights Matthews call to all people to worship and obey Jesus, our humble King and gracious Savior.Part of the Preaching the Word series.

The book of Deuteronomy is a call to obediencethe proper response to Gods faithfulness and love. Consisting primarily of speeches that Moses gave to the Israelites shortly before they entered the Promised Land, Moses words proclaimed Gods covenant faithfulness in hopes of motivating the Israelites to obey God despite the coming temptation to conform to the Canaanite culture.The challenges they faced then are remarkably parallel to those facing Christians today as we grapple with the issue of obedience in a world that offers other attractive ways of life. We wonder: How can we be faithful to God? And how do we help our children and the people we lead to be faithful? This book tells us how Moses tackled these challenges and, as Paul confirms in the New Testament, Deuteronomy serves "as an examplewritten down for our instruction" (1 Cor. 10:11).Ajith Fernando unpacks the relevance of Deuteronomy and captivates us with rich anecdotes from his thirty-five years of ministry to first-generation Christians in Sri Lanka. He offers concrete examples of how the truths contained in Deuteronomy can be applied, and he teaches us that obedience is the necessary response to the God who loves and saves us.Part of the Preaching the Word series.

During the sixteenth century, many Reformers echoed Erasmuss claim that the Scriptures were clear, could be understood by even the lowliest servant, and should be translated into the vernacular and placed in the hands of all people. People did not require the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church to correctly interpret the meaning of the Scriptures. However, within a few short years, the leaders of the Magisterial Reformers, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, had created their own Protestant versions of the magisterium. This work traces how the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture found expression in the writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, admirer of Erasmus and Luther, and associate of Zwingli. As Hubmaier engaged in theological debate with opponents, onetime friends, and other Anabaptists, he sought to clarify his understanding of this critical reformation doctrine. Chronologically tracing the development of Hubmaiers hermeneutic as he interacted with Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, andHans Denck provides a useful means of more accurately understanding his place in the matrix of the sixteenth-century Reformations.

El Gran diccionario de la Biblia recoge las aportaciones principales de la exégesis y teología bíblicas, y lo hace en torno a dos ejes. El primero es la historia narrada por la Biblia, que constituye un momento importante del despliegue de la humanidad, al menos desde la perspectiva de Occidente. El segundo es la palabra proclamada por la Biblia, fuente de inspiracion estetica, moral y religiosa de una parte significativa de la humanidad. Xabier Pikaza introduce a sus lectores en el extenso mundo de la Biblia de un modo culturalmente rico, respetando las tradiciones de las diversas iglesias, pero desde la perspectiva de una modernidad en la que deben dialogar y dialogan diversas formas de entender y proyectar la vida humana. Este diccionario es una obra accesible, que puede servir de ayuda a las personas que se acerquen al estudio de la Biblia, pero tambien es una obra seria y rigurosa, que, a traves de su sistema de remisiones y de sus ricas referencias bibliograficas, facilitara a las personas iniciadas en el estudio de los textos sagrados e incluso a los estudiosos profundizar en su acercamiento a la Palabra de Dios.

Hermann L. Strack and Paul Billerbecks Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash is an important reference work for illustrating the concepts, theological background, and cultural assumptions of the New Testament. The commentary walks through each New Testament book verse by verse, referencing potentially illuminating passages from the Talmud and Midrash and providing easy access to the rich textual world of rabbinic material.Volume 1 comments on the Gospel of Matthew.Originally published between 1922 and 1928 as Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, Strack and Billerbecks commentary has been unavailable in English until now.

Este comentario, más que ningún otro, ayuda grandemente, no sólo a conocer la Santa Biblia sino también a vivirla. Los pastores y maestros, especialmente, encontrarán en ella un copioso arsenal de material predicable. Tan asequible, incluso al mas inexperto predicador, que basta a menudo con los epigrafes bosquejados del comentario de Matthew Henry, para tener un buen esquema de sermon o mensaje, que puede rellenarse con las ideas del mismo comentario y completarlas con las personales, expresandolas en el estilo propio de cada predicador, teniendo en cuenta el auditorio al que se dirige. Disponiendo de un buen buen libro de anecdotas, el mensaje puede resultar perfectamente apto para atraer la atencion de los oyentes y para llevarlos, con el poder del Espiritu Santo, bien al conocimiento del Evangelio de salvacion, o a un solido crecimiento espiritual, segun los casos.

Conceptualizado como una contribución a la continua construcción de la identidad del Códice mendocino, el presente volumen está organizado en torno a tres ejes: el análisis material, la interpretación textual y estilistica, y la recepcion y transmision del manuscrito. Los estudios de Barker Benfield y MOLAB abren una ventana hacia el entendimiento objetivo de la materialidad del manuscrito. El proceso de conservacion y reencuadernamiento del Mendocino registrado por Barker Benfield ha disipado especulaciones en cuanto al metodo de construccion del manuscrito y sus posibles encuadernaciones previas, permitiendo que conexiones antes aceptadas, como la autoria de Francisco Gualpuyogualcal, sean reexaminadas. Asimismo, el analisis llevado a cabo por el equipo de MOLAB liderado por Davide Domenici ha sacado del ambito de la especulacion la naturaleza de los pigmentos del manuscrito, asi como ha permitido que hipotesis interpretativas previamente articuladas al respecto del significado de pigmentos especificos y lo estricto de su aplicacion en el tlacuilolli sean refinadas y contenidas. Si bien el color tiene significado para el tlacuilo, este no esta directa y necesariamente ligado a su materialidad. A partir de estas observaciones se puede desarrollar una nueva generacion de estudios interpretativos cuyas propuestas se basen en datos cada vez mas certeros acerca de la naturaleza material del Mendocino.Los estudios interpretativos del manuscrito que ocupan el presente volumen representan una linea de investigacion que, al considerar al manuscrito desde la perspectiva compleja de la obra de arte, bibliografica y literaria, complementa las lecturas antropologicas e historicas que se han hecho del Mendocino en estudios anteriores. Asi, los ensayos de Diana Magaloni, Daniela Bleichmar y Jorge Gomez Tejada, editor del libro, reconsideran el numero y estilo de los artistas que crearon el manuscrito para entender tanto el proceso de creacion del mismo como el lugar que este ocupa en el contexto artistico del virreinato temprano. Las decisiones que estos artistas e intelectuales toman en el Mendocino, lejos de insertarse en una relacion binaria dominante-dominado, se presentan como una manifestacion de los modos de pensar y ver el espacio y el tiempo en el mundo mesoamericano. Las pinturas del Mendocino ejecutadas a manera de taller en donde uno, dos o mas individuos intervienen en una misma pagina para crear de manera sincronizada una sola composicion, tal como demuestra quien escribe toman visos de ritualidad y funcionan como "instrumento para re-crear, reactualizar y hacer coherente el devenir historico ligado al territorio y los patrones cosmicos" (ver Capitulo 4). Esta ultima observacion complementa y refuerza la lectura de la tercera seccion del manuscrito propuesta por Joanne Harwood, para quien, independientemente de lo original de las soluciones visuales utilizadas para componer esta seccion del manuscrito, su modelo prehispanico se encuentra en un genero de resonancia religiosa mesoamericana: el teoamoxtli.

Discipline. Endurance. Perseverance.The New Testament often describes the Christian life as a marathon, a race set before us. But what exactly is the prize? Do all those completing the race share in it? And can the prize be lost?Tackling these and other vexing questions, Thomas Schreiner and Ardel Caneday offer in this book a serious, exegetical wrestling with the biblical understanding of the nature of saving faith and its implications for the people of God. Here is a foundational study that considers all of the relevant New Testament texts and that weighs the meaning of those texts for both Christian living and pastoral ministry.

Does the Septuagint have authority for the church today?Numerous scholars have explored what the Septuagint is and its history and uses, but less scholarship has engaged with the ways it exercises authority within the Christian tradition. In the first multicontributor volume of its kind, biblical scholars Greg Lanier and Will Ross bring together experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the nature of the Septuagints authority over the ages.Discover fresh insights from experts across disciplinesincluding Old Testament, New Testament, patristics, systematic theology, historical theology, and moreinto whether and how the Septuagint holds authority for todays church. With clarity and depth, this helpful addition to Septuagint studies will expand the conversation of how Christians should understand the Septuagint both in the academy and in the church.This book seeks: To explore the "authority" question from multiple perspectives. To examine how the early church, Reformers, and systematic (Protestant and Catholic) theologians view the Septuagint. To disentangle the NTs frequent use of the Septuagint from its perceived status as authoritative or "canonical". Whether youre a scholar, theologian, pastor, or seminary student, The Authority of the Septuagint is an invitation to engage with the Septuagint, its history, and its significance for the church today.

A classic study now available in English First appearing in 1885, Schlatters Der Glaube im Neuen Testament (Faith in the New Testament) is a thorough analysis of the concept of faith. Taking into account Old Testament, rabbinic, and key first-century writings, Schlatter provides an exhaustive study on the meaning and implications of faith in the New Testament. It is a philological masterpiece, making its translation into English a great contribution to New Testament theological studies. This fresh translation retains the substance and style of his original work, giving a new audience direct access to Schlatters work. Schlatters rigorous thought remains invaluable today.

"Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it." (Jeremiah 6:16) In Walking the Ancient Path, distinguished Old Testament scholar Walter C. Kaiser Jr. draws on a lifetime of study to illuminate the book of Jeremiah for a contemporary audience. Following an introduction that surveys the historical and literary background of Jeremiah along with its theological emphases, Kaiser examines each verse of the text, explaining its meaning and significance. Every section is followed by devotional and application insights that guide the reader in applying the text to their everyday lives. Bibliographies in each section provide resources for further study, and most textual and linguistic matters are discussed in footnotes. Pastors, scholars, and serious students of the Bible will find this volume indispensable for understanding Jeremiahs message and how to apply it today.

Pastor de la Iglesia de Escocia y profesor de la Universidad de Glasgow, William Barclay, es uno de los comentaristas más apreciados y reconocidos del siglo XX. Sus constantes referencias y citas de otros grandes autores de la fe cristiana y de manera especial de los Padres de la Iglesia, aporta a su trabajo una autoridad y valor fuera de lo comun. Su COMENTARIO AL NUEVO TESTAMENTO es una obra documentada, informativa, edificante y relevante, que se ha convertido en un clasico para todos los estudiosos de la Biblia.William Barclay explica las palabras dificiles, describe con todo detalle los lugares y los objetos, y hace hablar a los personajes en un lenguaje que podamos entender ahora. No camufla las dificultades ni soslaya los desafios, porque lo que quiere es hacernos comprender la perenne actualidad del evangelio. Su proposito es poner los resultados de la mas profunda investigacion biblica al alcance de los lectores que no tienen estudios teologicos, demostrando que Jesucristo no es meramente un personaje historico, sino Alguien con Quien podemos tener un encuentro personal, de cuya compañia y amistad podemos gozar, y cuyas enseñanzas siguen siendo validas y relevantes en todos los aspectos de la vida. Como lo expresa en una antigua oracion inglesa que Barclay coloca como lema en muchos de sus libros: "ayudarnos a conocer a Jesucristo mas intimamente, amarle mas entrañablemente y seguirle mas fielmente"La presente edicion en un solo tomo de esta importante obra, traducida magistralmente al español por Alberto Araujo, aporta ademas de una mayor facilidad de adquisicion y manejo por parte del pueblo cristiano en el mundo de habla hispana, la ventaja de la unificacion de indices y bibliografias:INDICE ANALITICO DE CONCEPTOS Y PERSONAJES: Con mas de 4.000 entradas, constituye un diccionario completo y una herramienta utilisima para pastores, predicadores y estudiantes, que permite explorar en profundidad el contenido del Comentario y con ello todo el texto del Nuevo Testamento partiendo de la idea a la palabra y de la palabra a la idea.INDICE DE PATRISTICA, LITERATURA JUDAICA, APOCALIPTICA, TEXTOS APOCRIFOS Y CODICES: Que aporta un acceso facil de todas las fuentes citadas para analizar su vinculacion con el texto del NT.INDICE DE PALABRAS HEBREAS GRIEGAS Y LATINAS: Partiendo de su transcripcion fonetica aproximada, para ver como se pronunciaban cuando se escribio el N.T.BIBLIOGRAFIA: Con una amplia seleccion de libros en español que se recomiendan como fuentes complementarias para el estudio, tanto de todo el N.T. como de cada libro en particular.

Among the several prominent themes in the Bible, the story of Israel is one that has attracted recent attention and study. The biblical story of Israelin its election, sin, exile and restorationis a finely articulated drama of the glory and the plight of the universal story of humanity and creation. And the story of Jesus, born from the womb of Israel as its Messiah and true seed of Abraham, provides the redemptive solution to Israels and the worlds plight.This book by C. Marvin Pate, J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays, E. Randolph Richards, W. Dennis Tucker Jr., and Preben Vang explores the unitive theme of the story of Israel from Genesis to Revelation. Probing each section of Scripturefrom Pentateuch, Psalms and Prophets to Gospels, Epistles and Apocalypsethe authors bring the contours of this story to light. From close-up examinations of key texts to panoramic shots of the biblical terrain, The Story of Israel unfolds an intriguing and compelling perspective on biblical theology. And with its features of recommended readings and study questions, it is a textbook suitable for classroom and individual study.

Amongst all the commentaries on St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans Leenhardts has won a distinguished place. Marked by freshness, lucidity and a firm grasp of the inner essentials of the Epistle, the commentary is both scholarly and readable. J.G. Davies wrote of it: "This is the outstanding commentary in any language on Romans. Leenhardt has illuminated many obscure passages; some of his interpretations are entirely new and yet entirely convincing. No one could read this commentary without a deeper understanding of the apostles essential thought."

Amongst all the commentaries on St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans Leenhardts has won a distinguished place. Marked by freshness, lucidity and a firm grasp of the inner essentials of the Epistle, the commentary is both scholarly and readable. J.G. Davies wrote of it: "This is the outstanding commentary in any language on Romans. Leenhardt has illuminated many obscure passages; some of his interpretations are entirely new and yet entirely convincing. No one could read this commentary without a deeper understanding of the apostles essential thought."