Jeremiah

Logos Bible Software has a further excellent resource available for free this month, Brevard Childs’ Old Testament Library volume on Isaiah. With this resource, Leslie Allen’s volume on Jeremiah comes for $0.99.

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

• Paul House, “Investing in the Ruins: Jeremiah and Theological Vocation”
• Daniel Block, “‘What Do These Stones Mean?’: The Riddle of Deuteronomy 27”
• Paul Tanner, “The Cost of Discipleship: Losing One’s Life for Jesus’ Sake”
• Greg Rhodea, “Did Matthew Conceive a Virgin?: Isaiah 7:14 and the Birth of Jesus”
• Daniel Wallace, “Sharp’s Rule Revisited: A Response to Stanley Porter”
• Stanley Porter, “Granville Sharp’s Rule: A Response to Daniel Wallace, Or Why a Critical Book Review Should Be Left Alone”
• Daniel Wallace, “Granville Sharp’s Rule: A Rejoinder to Stan Porter”
• Walter Schultz, “Jonathan Edwards’s Concept of an Original Ultimate End”
• Shawn Bawulski, “Reconciliationism, a Better View of Hell: Reconciliationism and Eternal Punishment”

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First Samuel 18:6 describes David’s return after killing Goliath ( 1 Sam 17:41–58). Precisely how this event sits chronologically in relationship to the surrounding narrative is difficult to establish. 1 One good way of reading the narrative, however, involves treating 1 Sam 18:1–5 as an extended parenthesis, which includes some foreshadowing, and understanding 1 Sam 18:6 to be bringing the reader back to the main plot line that had temporarily paused with 1 Sam 17:58. 2 In this context, it begins to be said הכה שׁאול֙ באלפו ודוד ברבבתיו ‎( 1 Sam 18:7; Saul has slain by his thousands and David by his ten thousands; see also 1 Sam 21:11; 29:5). 3 Yet, thus far, David has specifically been reported to have killed only one person (Goliath) and some animals ( 1 Sam 17:34–37)—not רבבת (ten thousands). 4 Rather, the women’s song quantitatively represents the qualitative value of David’s victory over Goliath as it relates to Saul’s previous exploits. 5 On hearing this song, then, Saul becomes enraged and starts looking and acting to do David harm ( 1 Sam 18:8–9).