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Five Festal Garments: Christian Reflections on the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther Volume 10
Contributor(s): Webb, Barry G. (Author), Carson, D. A. (Editor)
ISBN: 0830826106     ISBN-13: 9780830826100
Publisher: IVP Academic
OUR PRICE:   $22.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2001
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Annotation: (NSBT) Barry Webb offers fresh and illuminating perspectives on the "festival garments" of love, kindness, suffering, vexation and deliverance through a study of The Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
- Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - Poetry & Wisdom Literature
- History | Jewish - General
Dewey: 221.044
LCCN: 00047163
Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology
Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.41" W x 8.54" (0.39 lbs) 151 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Evangelical
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:

These five Old Testament books, traditionally known simply as the Scrolls, are among the most neglected parts of the Christian Bible. In Judaism, the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther were eventually adopted as lectionary readings for five of the major festivals. In Christian tradition, however, no consensus has emerged about their proper use. Each book presents particular difficulties with regard to how it relates to the rest of Scripture and how it should be understood as the Word of God for us today. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Barry Webb offers a Christian interpretation of these problematic writings. He allows each book to set its own agenda, and then examines each in relation to the wider Old Testament and to the New Testament gospel with its basic structure of promise and fulfillment. In this way, Webb presents fresh and illuminating perspectives on these five festal garments of love, kindness, suffering, vexation and deliverance. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.


Contributor Bio(s): Webb, Barry G.: - Barry G. Webb (PhD, Sheffield) is emeritus senior research fellow in Old Testament at Moore Theological College in New South Wales, Australia. He has writtenThe Book of Judges (JSOT Press).