S. Kent Brown
You've studied the Old Testament. You've studied the New Testament. But what do you know about the nearly five hundred years of history between these sacred books? Now in The Lost 500 Years (a special illustrated edition of formerly titled Between the Testaments), S. Kent Brown and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel illuminate this little-understood but vital era. The book discusses such topics as:
Tucked into the New Testament after Galatians and the Corinthian correspondence, the Epistle to the Ephesians casts a warm, quieting glow when compared to the strident character of Galatians and the rather tough lines that Paul penned to former associates in Corinth. In Ephesians, by contrast, the Apostle Paul has shined a bright light on both an overly generous God the Father, who "is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think"
...A key mission of the BYU New Testament Commentary series is to make New Testament scholarship accessible to Latter-day Saints as they study this book of sacred scripture. As stated on the project's website, "With a rapidly growing number of studies on the New Testament, the time has come to offer a responsible, carefully researched, multivolume commentary that illuminates both the historical and cultural settings as well as the linguistic heritage
...You've studied the Old Testament. You've studied the New Testament. But what do you know about the five hundred years between these sacred books? In Between the Testaments: From Malachi to Matthew, Latter-day Saint scholars S. Kent Brown and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel illuminate this little-understood era. The authors discuss such fascinating topics as:
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha
The Hellenization of the ancient
...The New Rendition of the Gospel of Luke provides a modern English translation of Luke's Greek text. It is excerpted from The Testimony of Luke by S. Kent Brown. This Rendition was created mainly by Eric D. Huntsman.
Luke lays claim to writing more than any other New Testament author. With his Gospel and Book of Acts, this second-generation Christian's portrait of the world out of which Jesus and his church arose is beyond measure. Here, readers
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