The Twelve Prophets

Volume 14

Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden, Alberto Ferreiro, Thomas C. Oden

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780830814848
• eBook ISBN: 9780830897391
• Subtopic: Biblical Reference

"And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27).The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative brevity of their writings. Encouraged by the example of the New Testament writers, the church fathers found numerous parallels between the Gospels and the prophetic books. Among the events foretold, they found not only the flight into Egypt after the nativity, the passion, and resurrection of Christ, and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, but also Judas's act of betrayal, the earthquake at Jesus' death and the rending of the temple veil. Detail upon detail brimmed with significance for Christian doctrine, including baptism and the Eucharist as well as the relation between the covenants.In this rich and vital resource you will find excerpts, some translated here into English for the first time, from more than thirty church fathers, ranging in time from Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus (late first and early second centuries) to Gregory the Great, Braulio of Saragossa, and Bede the Venerable (late sixth to early eighth centuries). Geographically the sources range from the great Cappadocians—Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa—John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian, and Hippolytus in the East, to Ambrose, Augustine, Cyprian, and Tertullian in the West, and Origen, Cyril, and Pachomius in Egypt.This Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume is a treasure trove out of which Christians may bring riches both old and new in their understanding of these ancient texts.

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General Introduction

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Students of the Talmud will easily recognize this pattern of organization. The Talmud is a collection of rabbinic arguments, discussions and comments on the Mishnah, the first Jewish code of laws after the Bible, and the Gemara, an elaboration of the Mishnah. The study of Talmud is its own end and reward. In the Talmud every subject pertaining to Torah is worthy of consideration and analysis. As the Talmud is a vast repository of Jewish wisdom emerging out of revealed Scripture, so are the Fathers the repository of Christian wisdom emerging out of reveale...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Project Research Team
• Contents
• Publisher’s Note Regarding This Digital Edition
• General Introduction
• A Guide to Using This Commentary
• Abbreviations
• Introduction to the Twelve Prophets
• Hosea
• Joel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Jonah
• Micah
• Nahum
• Habakkuk
• Zephaniah
• Haggai
• Zechariah
• Malachi
• Appendix: Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited
• Biographical Sketches & Short Descriptions of Select Anonymous Works
• Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period
• Bibliography of Works in Original Languages
• Bibliography of Works in English Translation
• Authors/Writings Index
• Subject Index
• Scripture Index
• Notes
• Praise for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
• About the Editor
• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
• More Titles from InterVarsity Press
• Copyright Page