Esther — Introduction
…Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include them; Protestant Bibles place them among the Apocrypha. The additions are the oldest surviving evidence…
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Mark — Introduction
…The same ironic word, “well,” frames the whole chapter — sincere of Isaiah's prophecy, sarcastic of the Pharisees' skill at…
Joel — Introduction
…Peter's Pentecost sermon quotes the Greek of what the Hebrew numbers 3:1-5, which English Bibles print as…
Nehemiah — Introduction
…12345678910111213 Chapter by chapter Nehemiah 1“The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah” — no other book in the Hebrew Bible…
2 Kings — Introduction
…The second half is the closest the Bible comes to sustained political history, and it is where biblical narrative and…
Deuteronomy — Introduction
…Moses lays down the Bible's oldest rule of self-preservation — do not add to this word, do not take…
Song of Solomon — Introduction
…The voices are unlabelled (the speaker headings in modern Bibles are editorial; the manuscripts have none), and they are identified…
Nahum — Introduction
…some readers uneasy (is it prophecy, or nationalism?) and others grateful (it is the Bible taking the side of the…
1 Kings — Introduction
…About the book Where it sits In the Hebrew Bible one book, Kings, among the Former Prophets; in the Christian…
Genesis 16
…vate'anneha, "she afflicted her" — the precise verb of the prophecy one chapter back, "they will be enslaved and afflicted…
