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Minor Prophets: Major Issues!

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Lamentations

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Shake off the Dust

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In Isaiah 52:1-2, God showed the prophet Isaiah the passion he had for His people but how far short they had fallen from that purpose. As a people, they had failed to understand their calling and become content with so little.Through Isaiah, the Lord God challenged His children to shake off the dust and take their rightful place. These words speak to us in our day as we face the onslaught of the ... Read more

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In Isaiah 52:1-2, God showed the prophet Isaiah the passion he had for His people but how far short they had fallen from that purpose. As a people, they had failed to understand their calling and become content with so little.Through Isaiah, the Lord God challenged His children to shake off the dust and take their rightful place. These words speak to us in our day as we face the onslaught of the
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Politics in the Hebrew Bible

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by Matthew B. Schwartz, Kalman J. Kaplan ...

We live in an age when it is not uncommon for politicians to invoke religious doctrine to explain their beliefs and positions on everything from domestic to foreign policy. And yet, many of us would be hard pressed to pinpoint the exact source of these political beliefs in the religious texts that are said to have spawned them. In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and Government, Kalman J. ... Read more

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We live in an age when it is not uncommon for politicians to invoke religious doctrine to explain their beliefs and positions on everything from domestic to foreign policy. And yet, many of us would be hard pressed to pinpoint the exact source of these political beliefs in the religious texts that are said to have spawned them. In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and Government, Kalman J.
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Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature

Edited by Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor ...

Series series Emerging Scholars
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In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, childrens labor contributes to the familys livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners,
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