Download or read book Song of Songs Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther written by Irene Nowell and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Nowell's lively and thoughtful exploration of these poetic and powerful books promises to ignite appreciation and understanding in the hearts and minds of readers. The five books abound with vivid stories of faith. The Song of Songs, dedicated to Solomon, celebrates the wonder of human love. The book of Ruth, a masterpiece of storytelling, tells of two valiant women who move from emptiness to fullness, desolation to redemption. Lamentations, telling of the destruction of Jerusalem, recognizes that the Lord has struck and that only the Lord can heal. Ecclesiastes teaches the futility of vanity and storing up riches. The book of Esther tells the story of a Jewish woman and her uncle who, by their courage and wit, deliver the Jews from threatened genocide. Gathered together and artfully explored, this volume offers readers a wealth of information to inspire deeper understanding of the human journey and God's presence in the lives of those who trust in him.
Download or read book The Books of Ruth Esther Ecclesiastes The Song of Songs Lamentations The Five Scrolls written by Wesley J. Fuerst and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1975-10-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five Old Testament books dealt with in this volume of the Commentary occupied a special place in Hebrew tradition as selected readings for major festivals and were accordingly brought together in Hebrew manuscripts to form a group of five scrolls. The books of The Five Scrolls vary greatly; debate about their holiness and authority is recorded from the second century AD onwards, and they pose many problems of interpretation today.
Download or read book The Books of Ruth Esther Ecclesiastes the Song of Songs Lamentations written by Wesley J. Fuerst and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five Old Testament book dealt with in this volume of the Commentary occupied a special place in Hebrew tradition as selected readings for major festivals and were accordingly brought together in Hebrew manuscripts to form a group of five scrolls. The books of The Five Scrolls vary greatly; debate about their holiness and authority is recorded from the second century AD onwards, and they pose many problems of interpretation today.
Download or read book Tracts for the Times written by William McKane and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Song of Songs Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther written by James A. Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete text of each biblical book is given, with the commentary on the same or facing page. Review aids and discussion topics make the series practical and useful for individual or group Bible study.
Download or read book Ruth Esther Ecclesiastes Song of Songs and Lamentations written by Robert Fyall and published by People's Bible Commentary. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short books of Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Lamentations contain both interest and difficulty disproportionate to their size. Two of them are stories set in the wider framework of Biblical history; one is a puzzling book of wisdom; one is a love poem; one is a national lament. Some of them have been the subjects of fierce debate as to whether they should be included in the Bible at all! Each of these five books has profound pastoral implications, however. They take us into a world of intense joy and massive grief. Using story, poetry, proverb, dirge and lament, they run the whole gamut of human emotion. Each has its own distinctive style and emphasis and, as part of the canon of Scripture, each of these five books ultimately bear witness in some way to the gospel message.
Download or read book Five Festal Garments written by Barry G. Webb and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2001-03-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Barry Webb offers fresh and illuminating perspectives on the "festival garments" of love, kindness, suffering, vexation and deliverance through a study of The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther.
Download or read book Ruth Esther Song of Songs and Judith written by Lisa M. Wolfe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively commentary encompasses four major books focusing on women in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha. Each section in the volume addresses the biblical text in detail, and draws connections from the world of ancient audiences to that of present-day readers. Wolfe's research is motivated by the usual inquiries of biblical scholarship, as well as the questions raised by the many church Bible study groups she has taught. Clergy and laity, students and scholars will benefit from these contemporarily relevant reflections on Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs and Judith. Ruth: The foreign widow who sneaks onto the nighttime threshing floor to find survival for herself and her devastated mother-in-law. Esther: The Jewish orphan-turned-queen who turns Persian banqueting on its head in an effort to defend her people. Song of Songs: The proud and alluring lover who claims her sexuality as her own and joyfully shares it with her beloved. Judith: The pious and beautiful widow who lets the enemy commander's appetite become his downfall in order to save her besieged city. This volume is an opportunity to engage these women's suspense-filled stories, which have sustained faith communities since ancient times.
Download or read book Song of Songs written by Sidney Brichto and published by Sinclair Stevenson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretive translation of the Five Scrolls brings to life the variety and scope of the Old Testament. The five books cited feature comedy, erotic love, the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and philosophy that borders on cynicism.
Download or read book Lamentations Ruth Ecclesiastes Esther Song of Songs written by H. Freedman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Five Scrolls written by Israel Bettan and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lamentations Ruth Ecclesiastes Esther Song of Songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Scrolls for All Times written by Tony Cartledge and published by Nurturing Faith Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love digging into parts of the Bible that are underexplored. As an archaeological excavation can uncover layer upon layer of ancient civilizations hiding just beneath the earth's surface, so the trowel of careful study and exegesis can unearth layers of meaning that have long been overlooked. So it is with the five brief biblical books we will study in this volume. The book of Ruth is familiar to many Christians as a story of love and devotion--but not for its deeper significance. Esther is a lesser known heroine whose story is more convoluted and troubling than it appears. The Song of Songs, with its frank eroticism, has frightened pious clerics into masking its message with allegory, while the dark books of Lamentations and Ecclesiastes may send readers fleeing to higher literary ground lest they become too deeply enmeshed in the hard questions of life. Our purpose in these Bible studies is to tackle these texts as they have come to us, digging beneath surface pleasantries to discover the clever, hopeful, skeptical, sorrowful, delightful, and sometimes naked characters beneath. In doing so, we may see new things, think new thoughts, and seize the opportunity to appreciate the scriptures even more. ---John D. Pierce, Publisher Nurturing Faith, Inc.
Download or read book The Compilational History of the Megilloth written by Timothy J. Stone and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Are the books of the 'Megilloth' an anthology of unrelated writings? Timothy J. Stone explores the canonical shape of the third part of the Hebrew canon, the Writings, and concludes that the codification of the 'Megilloth' into a collection is integral to the canonical process."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Five Scrolls written by Israel Bettan and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1950 edition.
Download or read book The Five Scrolls written by Herber N. Bronstein and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where is God in the Megilloth written by Brittany Melton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Where is God in the Megilloth? Brittany N. Melton constructs a dialogue among Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs centred on this question, in an effort to settle the debate about whether God is present or absent in these books. Their juxtaposition in the Hebrew Bible highlights their shared theme of apparent divine absence, but, paradoxically, traces of God’s presence are unearthed as well. By examining various aspects of this theme, including the literary absence of God, divine abandonment, God-talk, allusive language, God’s providence, and divine silence, it becomes clear that the ambiguity of divine presence and absence in the Megilloth presents a significant challenge to current conceptualizations of divine presence and absence in the Hebrew Bible.
