OT317 Book Study: Judges
Overview
View background information and a clear exposition of Judges demonstrating its relevance to a modern setting. Pastors and teachers will benefit from lessons on the consequence of apostasy, deliverance, and the character of each Judge. Professors and students will appreciate a scholarly focus on the literary context in which Israel’s spiritual and moral disintegration took place. God rescuing Israel through the Judges is presented in an intellectually enriching and a highly accessible format that will transform your study and deepen understanding.
Top Highlights
“ Baals.’ ’ Were they serious? What’s missing here, interestingly, is there is no plea for forgiveness: ‘Forgive us” (source)
“ they’re all characterized as ‘saviors’ (moshi'im) who are delivering the people from a foreign enemy.” (source)
“Israel’s apostasy was rooted in their loss of memory of the Lord’s gracious actions on their behalf” (source)
“The author’s agenda is to show how Israel is being increasingly Canaanized and the result of that—namely, they ceased to be the agent that God had called them to be, an agent of grace and light and mercy to the rest of the world.” (source)
“But when we look at the Jewish canon, we find that the book of Judges is in a section called the Former Prophets, which is a very helpful clue, because this book is written as a prophetic book. It is not written primarily as a historical book. The primary goal of the author was not to help you reconstruct events that happened at this time. His primary goal is to make a theological and prophetic point.” (source)
- Title: OT317 Book Study: Judges
- Author: Daniel I. Block
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Judges › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Judges › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. O.T. Judges--Commentaries; Education › Bible. O.T. Judges--Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Resource ID: LLS:OT317BLOCK
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-06-20T22:11:19Z
Dr. Daniel Block, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, has been teaching God’s Word for more than 30 years.
It has been a special joy for Dr. Block to watch students, who often take introductory courses in Old Testament only because they are required to do so by the curriculum, suddenly awaken to the fact that the Old Testament is understandable and its message is both life-giving and relevant for modern, everyday life.
Dr. Block has published a number of books and essays in scholarly journals. The paradigm for his research and ministry is set by Ezra, as described in Ezra 7:10: he committed himself to the study the Torah of Yahweh, to put it into practice, and to teach his revealed will in Israel. This means constantly asking serious questions of the Scriptures: What does the text say? Why does the text say it like that? What did the text mean to the original audience? What does the text have to say to me today? In order to answer these questions, one needs to understand both the worlds out of which the biblical texts arose and the worlds in which modern people live.