Pertanyaan-pertanyaan terpenting yang bisa dirujukkan manusia adalah: Mengapa Yesus Kristus disalibkan? Mengapa Dia mengalami penderitaan yang begitu hebat? Apa kaitan semuanya ini dengan saya? Dan yang terakhir, siapa yang mengutusnya untuk mati di dunia ini? Jawaban untuk pertanyaan terakhir ini adalah Allah sendiri: Yesus adalah Anak Allah. Penderitaan yang dilaluinya tiada taranya, tetapi s…
In this newly revised and expanded edition, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons. Osborne contends that hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context--a movement between the horizon of the text and the…
The opening chapters of Genesis - important at any time - have been the focal point of controversy for more than a century. Few topics have been so hotly debated by theologians, philosophers and scientists alike. Henri Blocher argues that our primary task is to discover what these key chapters of the Bible originally meant. Only then will we be able to unravel the knotty issues surrounding huma…
Creation in six days. Woman from the side of man. "Sons of god" taking "daughters of men". A massive disaster and an animal rescue boat of biblical proportions. Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and the ongoing saga of a dysfunctional family. These are just a few of the episodes that Genesis conjures up. But we miss the point if we focus on what seems strange to us. And we distort the message if we dema…
"More than any other book of the Bible, Ephesians displays the great purpose and plan of God for the church," Walter Liefeld writes. "It provides a perspective that is unique: God's--and the believer's--view from the 'heavenly realms.'" For those who long to delve into the mind and purposes of God, few books are more helpful than Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Here the apostle paints in broad …
Ernst Wurthweins introduction to the Biblia Hebraica has long served as a textbook for generations of students interested in the history of the Old Testament text and the problems of textual criticism. From its first appearance in 1952 to the fifth German edition in 1988, the book was faithfully updated by Wurthwein himself in light of new research. But now a new edition of Wurthwein is due. Wh…
Let's face it. Just the word exegesis puts some of us on edge. We are excited about learning to interpret the Bible, but the thought of exegetical method evokes a chill. Some textbooks on exegesis do nothing to overcome these apprehensions. The language is dense. The concepts are hard. And the expectations are way too high. However, the skills that we need to learn are ones that a minister of…
When first published in 1983, Biblical Words and Their Meaning broke new ground by introducing to students of the Bible the principles of linguistics, in particular, on lexical semantics - that branch that focuses on the meaning of individual words. Silva's structural approach provides the interpreter with an important lexical tool for more responsible understanding of the biblical text and mor…
How do some of the apostle Paul's most passionate words help us to understand our lives as Christians today? According to Bible scholar D. A. Carson, 2 Corinthians 10-13 most clearly reveals Paul's heart and mind. It contains well-known passages, such as Paul's description of his thorn in the flesh and an intense chronicle of his specific sufferings. This section of Scripture also models Pau…
Anda belum pernah berjumpa dengan-Nya secara pribadi, dan Anda juga tidak mengenal orang yang pernah. Tetapi ada jalan untuk mengenal siapa Dia. Bagaimana? Yesus Kristus - Pribadi ilahi yang dinyatakan di dalam Alkitab - memiliki keunggulan yang unik dan keindahan spiritual yang berbicara langsung kepada jiwa kita dan berkata, ""Ya, inilah kebenaran."" Ini seperti melihat matahari dan mengetahu…