Month: January 2019
Micah: Prophet of God’s Faithful Kingship [Examining Biblical Literature]
Historical Background: Micah’s first verse is a timestamp that would seem to make it much easier for us to know when the text was historically composed. Sadly, this timestamp is actually not as helpful as […]
Ezra-Nehemiah: Reforming & Rebuilding the People of God [Examining Biblical Literature]
Historical Background: The books Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book, but at some point after King Jesus the book was split into two.[1] The events of Ezra-Nehemiah take place primarily in the mid-400’s BCE. […]
Jonah: Prophet of Resentment towards God [Examining Biblical Literature]
Historical Background: Jonah is another biblical text that is notoriously hard to land on a date. Thankfully, I am not looking for a hard origin point for these texts but the most likely composition era […]
Job: Hating God because of Suffering [Examining Biblical Literature]
Historical Background: The book of Job is notoriously hard to date as a piece of literature. It may have some parallels to mythic epics in Babylon, but nothing as close as the Gilgamesh epic to […]
Common Thought 