Old Testament Narrative
Genre
Old Testament Narratives are units of thought that fit within the larger framework of an Old Testament Book.
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Hermeneutics and Genesis 1-11
Introduction Beyond all question, the church’s premier interpreters of Holy Scripture are its pastoral preachers-that is (and I am purposely being precise here) those who, when they stand in the pulpit, seek to let the Bible do the talking, so that the l... Read More »
Reading the Book of Joshua
Introduction In 1785, Timothy Dwight, future president of Yale University, published a book entitled The Conquest of Canaan, a Poem in Eleven Books. In this work, which actually was written during the American Revolution, Dwight portrayed allegorically the Ame... Read More »
Theological Themes in the Book of Joshua
Introduction The book of Joshua is not a simple work. John Bright thinks it “presents as complex a literary problem as any book in the Bible.”[1]John Bright, “The Book of Joshua,” in The Interpreter’s Bible, ed. George A. Buttrick... Read More »
Preaching from the Book of Joshua
Tell Me the Story of Joshua “I love to tell the story, for some have never heard The Message of salvation, from God’s own holy word.” The book of Joshua is a narrative within a narrative. The first six books of the Bible (Hexateuch) center on... Read More »
