Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther /
Allen, Leslie C.
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther / Leslie C. Allen, Timothy S. Laniak. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2012. - xi, 290 p. ; 22 cm. - Understanding the Bible commentary series. v.9 . - Understanding the Bible commentary series. .
Originally published: Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers ; Carlisle, Cumbria : Paternoster Press, c2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ezra-Nehemiah is the Old Testament equivalent of the Acts of the Apostles--it is a book of new beginnings. Just as Acts narrates the early history of the church through the work of the apostles, Ezra-Nehemiah narrates the re-establishment of the people of God after the exile through the work of Sheshbazzar, Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Allen explores Ezra-Nehemiah as a single literary text made up of three parts telling the story of three missions and the opposition they meet with. Esther is a story about a young girl who becomes queen. Laniak's commentary examines this narrative as a story with many levels of meaning. Esther is about the minority Jewish community in the dependent state of Diaspora, navigating a precarious existence in two worlds, and it is about the triumph of right over wrong, of God's people over their enemies. --From publisher's description.
9780801045462 0801045460
Bible.--Ezra--Commentaries.
Bible.--Nehemiah--Commentaries.
Bible.--Esther--Commentaries.
BS1151.3 BS1355.53 / .U64 2012
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther / Leslie C. Allen, Timothy S. Laniak. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2012. - xi, 290 p. ; 22 cm. - Understanding the Bible commentary series. v.9 . - Understanding the Bible commentary series. .
Originally published: Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers ; Carlisle, Cumbria : Paternoster Press, c2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ezra-Nehemiah is the Old Testament equivalent of the Acts of the Apostles--it is a book of new beginnings. Just as Acts narrates the early history of the church through the work of the apostles, Ezra-Nehemiah narrates the re-establishment of the people of God after the exile through the work of Sheshbazzar, Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Allen explores Ezra-Nehemiah as a single literary text made up of three parts telling the story of three missions and the opposition they meet with. Esther is a story about a young girl who becomes queen. Laniak's commentary examines this narrative as a story with many levels of meaning. Esther is about the minority Jewish community in the dependent state of Diaspora, navigating a precarious existence in two worlds, and it is about the triumph of right over wrong, of God's people over their enemies. --From publisher's description.
9780801045462 0801045460
Bible.--Ezra--Commentaries.
Bible.--Nehemiah--Commentaries.
Bible.--Esther--Commentaries.
BS1151.3 BS1355.53 / .U64 2012