A Window for Death
As I prepare for my course on Jeremiah this fall I noticed that the commentaries I was using (Brueggemann, Feinberg, Harrison, Kidner, Lalleman,…
Category: Jeremiah
Esther 9-10 – The Day of Reckoning and Rejoicing
9:1-4 – The day arrives. After all that had been done and the joy of chapter eight, the actual day for the struggle…
Daniel 12 – The Vision of the End
11:36-39 – The king who exalts himself. This king does have certain levels of overlap with Antiochus IV Epiphanes (and many commentators believe…
Daniel 10 – Prepared for the Final Vision
10:1 – The Time and General Content of the Vision. The third year of Cyrus king of Persia would place this vision in…
Daniel 9 – The Vision of the Seventy Sevens
9:1-2 – Understanding the date. This chapter occurs some time after chapter five and perhaps after chapter six. If this “Darius” the Mede…
The Old Testament for Seventh Graders (in Four Weeks!) 4
Life Under the Covenant – Joshua-Malachi Story: Living in the Land (Joshua-2 Chronicles) – Israel entered the land of eternal promise, but once…
Daniel 7 – Visions in the Night
This chapter is considered by most to be the most significant chapter of Daniel and also a key chapter of the Old Testament. …
Daniel 5 – The Writing Is On The Wall
<!–[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–> 5:1-4 – The party that ended it all. Daniel 5 moves the book forward in time about thirty…
Blessed be the One Who Grabs Babylon's Babies and Smashes Them on a Rock: A Psalm
By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion. On the poplars in her midst we hang our…
Daniel 3 – The God Who Saves
3:1-7 – The image of gold. Theodotian and the LXX provide an interesting time note that is not included in the Aramaic text…