Hebrews — Introduction
…Audience 'HEBREWS' — Jewish Christians, on the traditional reading, tempted under pressure to fall back from Christ into the familiar securities…
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Lamentations — Introduction
…destruction of both temples. ⚠ In the Septuagint and in Christian Bibles it is moved out of the Writings and placed…
Isaiah — Introduction
…Looking forward No book is quoted more often in the New Testament except Psalms, and none has shaped Christian language…
Ezra — Introduction
…In the Christian Old Testament the order is reversed and Ezra follows Chronicles, which makes the join at Cyrus's…
2 Chronicles — Introduction
…In the Christian Old Testament it follows 1 Chronicles and precedes Ezra — a natural join, since the book's last…
Nehemiah — Introduction
…About the book Where it sits One book with Ezra in the Hebrew canon, among the Writings; in the Christian…
Philippians — Introduction
…JOY sixteen times and contains one of the oldest Christian hymns — the warmest thing Paul wrote, to the one congregation…
Esther — Introduction
…Looking forward Esther offers no prophecy and no messianic figure, and any Christian reading has to work from shape rather…
Haggai — Introduction
…will fill this house with glory,' is read in Christian tradition as fulfilled when the Messiah himself entered the second…
Zephaniah — Introduction
…But the book's deepest Christian resonance is its END: 'Jehovah your God is in your midst… he will exult…
