Exegetical Thoughts and Biblical Theology

I just received word from Stephen Salisbury at Westminster that he received his copies of A Reader's Hebrew Bible today. I'm delighted to hear that it is shipping earlier than expected. I would encourage users to do two things: (1) read the introduction carefully, and (2) read the review of the volume I posted on January 23, 2008 here. The Genesis errata list promised there is now finished and available here . I also welcome reports of errata. Please report them as comments on this post or to readershebrew@gmail.com . If errata is posted as comments to this post other users will be able to see what has already been reported. Happy reading! Update: 6/19/2008 Known issues: 1. Esther 1, footnotes 6-21 do not match the footnotes in the text. Beginning with ftnt 22, the footnotes are back in sync. Really odd database issue. 2. Deut. 5:21 the verb that should be the second word in the verse accidentally wrapped up to the previous line and appears in v. 16. Update: 7/10/2008 A full...

John 4:34 λ έ γει α ὐ το ῖ ς ὁ Ἰ ησο ῦ ς · ἐ μ ὸ ν βρ ῶ μ ά ἐ στιν ἵ να ποι ή σω τ ὸ θ έ λημα το ῦ π έ μψαντ ό ς με κα ὶ τελει ώ σω α ὐ το ῦ τ ὸ ἔ ργον . “My food is that I might do the will of the One who sent me and that I might finish his work.” This passage arrested me yesterday. Food is what sustains and empowers life. Life, as we know it, revolves around food. Work schedules created by the reasonable inevitably make temporal room for food. Food is important! Jesus’ life revolved around food as well: His food was doing the will of the One who sent him. Jesus had a clear perception of His sent-ness. Do you? Scripture teaches that God brought each of us into this world for a purpose. Paul says, “We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, for good works which he prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10). It’s the “prepared ahead of time” part of that verse that tells me that God has pre-planned a set of jobs He wants us to do. We, to...