“An ethic unshaped by eschatology is neither Jesus’ nor Christian.” — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“the proper posture of the Christian is to improvise rather than simply to perform the” — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“We do not read the Bible aright until we learn to read it as the Story of Israel that comes to completion — fulfillment… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“We believe that if the Bible is God speaking, then the most important posture of the Christian before the Bible is to listen.” — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“Everything that he had had was a gift from God, given to him during his life. He came into the world with nothing (naked).… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“The presence of [precious] materials in the wilderness can be explained only as a result of the so-called plundering of the Egyptians (Ex. 12:33-35).… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“The author(s) of the Pentateuch believed that God actually created the universe in the past, Abraham migrated from Mesopotamia to Palestine, Moses parted the… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“if we follow the example of the psalmist The Psalms are an honest expression of emotions.” — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“1–2. Job speaks. At the conclusion of the epilogue, we heard that Job sat in silence with his three friends for seven days. The… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“Worship in many churches is a spectator sport. If we listen to the commands of the psalmist, our worship will radically change.” — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
“Thus one of the important contributions of the book of Job (as well as Ecclesiastes)[108] is to undermine the idea that retribution theology works… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
