The Twelve Prophets
By: edited by Alberto Ferreiro ; general editor, Thomas C. Oden.
Contributors: Ferreiro, Alberto.; Oden, Thomas C.
Series: Ancient Christian commentary on Scripture -- 14
Publisher: InterVarsity Press; IVP Academic
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Minor Prophets -- Commentaries.
Description: "The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture does what very few of today's students of the Bible could do for themselves. With the aid of computer technology, the vast array of writings from the church fathers - including much that is available only in the ancient languages - have been combed for their comment on Scripture. From these results, scholars with a deep knowledge of the fathers and a heart for the church have hand-selected material for each volume, shaping, annotating and introducing it to today's readers. Each portion of commentary has been chosen for its salient insight, its rhetorical power and its faithful representation of the consensual exegesis of the early church." "Today the historical-critical method of interpretation has nearly exhausted its claim on the biblical text and on the church. In its wake there is a widespread yearning among Christian individuals and communities for the wholesome, the deep and the enduring. The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture seeks not to replace those excellent commentaries that have been produced in the twentieth century. It supplements them, framing them with interpretive voices that have long sustained the church and only recently have fallen silent. It invites us to listen with appreciative ears and sympathetic minds as our ancient ancestors in the faith describe and interpret the scriptural vistas as they see them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Twelve Prophets; title: Commentary on Hosea; title: Commentary on Joel; title: Commentary on Amos; title: Commentary on Obadiah; title: Commentary on Jonah; title: Commentary on Micah; title: Commentary on Nahum; title: Commentary on Habakkuk; title: Commentary on Zephaniah; title: Commentary on Haggai; title: Commentary on Zechariah; title: Commentary on Malachi.