by Justin Marple | Feb 18, 2015 | Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
In Doug Green’s outline, Ezra 7-10 is the second step of the first half of the book. The first step was now complete as the Temple was rebuilt and dedicated. Yet the physical ‘house of God’ was not complete because now we have in mind all of...
by Justin Marple | Feb 10, 2015 | Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
This entry focuses on the introduction (Ezra 1:1-2:70) and first step (Ezra 3:1-6:22) of the first half of Ezra-Nehemiah. These chapters cover material before the namesakes Ezra or Nehemiah appear on the scene. Some would argue that the whole of this section is a...
by Justin Marple | Jan 26, 2015 | Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah Commentary, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
Ezra-Nehemiah is one book and should be read as one book. The book was probably written around 400 B.C., as suggested in the Dillard-Longman introduction, but they note that it is possible that it was not completed until as late as 300 B.C. In any case, it was not...
by Justin Marple | Jan 21, 2015 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
I found a handout that I had made in 2006 detailing the structure of the Book of Daniel as having an introductory chapter followed by a double chiasm. After studying Daniel yet again over the last couple years this outline is the best there is as far as I am...
by Justin Marple | Jan 13, 2015 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
I offer this article as a starting point for understanding Daniel 8 and 9. These chapters are apocalyptic visions and need to be interpreted as such. When I say that we could add these things to our table I am referencing the table available in the previous article...
by Justin Marple | Nov 17, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
When we looked at Daniel 2 for these commentary posts I did not spend any time unpacking the content of the vision and its interpretation because I wanted to save that discussion for our exploration of the similar vision of Daniel 7. You can find here a pdf of some...
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