100 Quotes About Old-testament

It is of great importance for a student of Old Testament theology to notice that in every period of the discipline, the questions, methods, and possibilities in which study is cast arise from the sociointellectual climate in which the work must be done.(p. 11)

Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world.

The past doesn’t change, does it?”“It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of flesh."- King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 12:11-12

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.