Tremper Longman III

“We do not read the Bible aright until we learn to read it as the Story of Israel that comes to completion…

— Tremper Longman III

“The Psalms put us in touch with our deepest emotions.”

— Tremper Longman III

“We believe that if the Bible is God speaking, then the most important posture of the Christian before the Bible is to…

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“Everything that he had had was a gift from God, given to him during his life. He came into the world with…

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“We can’t read the Psalms without an emotional response.”

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“The presence of [precious] materials in the wilderness can be explained only as a result of the so-called plundering of the Egyptians…

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“The author(s) of the Pentateuch believed that God actually created the universe in the past, Abraham migrated from Mesopotamia to Palestine, Moses…

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“if we follow the example of the psalmist The Psalms are an honest expression of emotions.”

— Tremper Longman III

“Culture shifts, but the Word of God remains.”

— Tremper Longman III

“1–2. Job speaks. At the conclusion of the epilogue, we heard that Job sat in silence with his three friends for seven…

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“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

“Thus one of the important contributions of the book of Job (as well as Ecclesiastes)[108] is to undermine the idea that retribution…

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“Divorce confuses the church today because marriage confuses. And marriage confuses the church today because love confuses.”

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“Job is a wisdom book. But not all wisdom books are alike.[42] Proverbs contains instructional literature (discourses and proverbs) that encourage wise…

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“the Psalms speak to all seasons of our souls.”

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“Wisdom, then, is how to live in God’s world in God’s way,”

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“that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it “shatters the myth that our own…

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“Wellhausen, who is at the foundation of so many contemporary issues of biblical scholarship, expressed his understanding of the religious nature of…

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“Attentive readers will also note the significance of the form he uses for much of his teaching—the parable. The parable is the…

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“An ethic unshaped by eschatology is neither Jesus’ nor Christian.”

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“the proper posture of the Christian is to improvise rather than simply to perform the”

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“as Childs points out, we first need to hear the “discrete voice” of the OT, we must then go on to read…

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“the church’s fundamental task is to mediate God’s presence as priests and to rule on behalf of God as kings and queens…

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“As the psalmists cry out in joy or grief, they stir us as we identify similar emotions in ourselves.”

— Tremper Longman III