A Handbook on the Book of Haggai (UBS Handbook Series)
Overview
What if you were responsible for translating God's Word into a language that never had a Bible before? Can you imagine the burden you would feel to do a good job?
God takes His Word pretty seriously, and you would certainly do everything in your power to make sure that you were not putting words into God's mouth, but that you were providing a text that clearly communicated God's Word as closely to the original as possible.
This challenge to understand the heart of the original Scriptures, in order to put the original text into a new language, was the impetus for the United Bible Societies to create handbooks for Bible translators working on this very thing. The United Bible Societies' Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures.
- Exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text
- Verse-by-verse guides
- An essential tool for Bible translators
Top Highlights
“The primary duty of a priest in the Hebrew culture was to be an intermediary (a person who was a channel of communication) between the Lord and his people. The means used was sacrifice.” (Page 16)
“What this means is that because food, wine, and clothing are scarce, prices are rising faster than wages, and the cost of living is continually increasing.” (Page 22)
“The time has not yet come to rebuild: Although a start had been made (Ezra 1–3), the work of rebuilding the Temple had run into difficulties and had been abandoned. The people had become discouraged, and a series of bad harvests (1:6, 11) had turned their minds to more urgent physical needs. It is possible also that some of the people thought that the rebuilding of the Temple should wait until the end of the seventy years mentioned in Jer 25:11; 29:10. This would not be until the year 516 b.c. The time has not yet come may be expressed as ‘this is not the right time’ (tev; similarly cev) or ‘it is too soon’ (gecl).” (Page 17)
“theymust again give priority to rebuilding the Temple” (Page 23)
“Darius the king is Darius Hystaspes, who ruled over Persia 522–486 b.c. tev makes this clear by saying that ‘Darius was emperor of Persia.’ Darius was really a high king or ‘emperor’ as tev shows. An ‘emperor’ ruled over a large number of countries and had many lesser rulers under him. Some languages refer to this type of ruler as ‘supreme ruler [or, supreme chief],’ ‘chief ruler,’ or ‘ruler over many kings [or, chiefs].’” (Page 14)
- Title: A Handbook on the Book of Haggai
- Authors: David J. Clark, Howard A. Hatton
- Series: United Bible Societies’ Handbooks
- Publisher: United Bible Societies
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2004
- Pages: 497
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Haggai › Translating
- Resource ID: LLS:34.0.155
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T18:58:26Z